Heya fellas,

 

It's been a while since I have been able to chat it up with you all, post 60 Standard Minutes threads, and entertain Jahled, Trej, and the rest of you mentals ( ). Just kidding.....

 

Anyways, my rather un-explained and not-mentioned fall of the face of the earth can be contributed ot the fact of a broadband provider change, and they considered SWR an illegal site that could not be accessed (go figure). Anyways, I am back to my old service after many problems of getting it switched.

 

And if you all remember, the day I left I was to post an SWR edition of 60 Standard Minutes, well I still have the word document in my folder. So look for it soon, after I get through about 10000 posts.

 

Feel good to be back, and sorry for the lack of notice, it was un-intentional.

 

Josh

Good to see you again! I look forward to the next edition of Sixty Standard Minutes.

Welcome back.

MENTALS! I prefer the term Eccentrics.

Woo!

 

Welcome back Antilles!

 

Did I mention Woo?

AA is back! The ex-spammer and prime member of the community will be able to keep on entertaining us with his terribly interessting 60 satandard minutes.

Welcome back my friend

 

ILLEGAL!!! SWR ILLEGAL!!! Who is the idiot who told them that.

Hey fellas, glad to see your all stick kick'en.

Yeah, welcome back, dude! What broadband provider was that? I would like to get in touch with them to sort things out...

It was a small provider called LodgeNet I believe. Just don't hurt anyone your Vizierness.

Don't worry, I won't hurt anyone... This is the email I sent them:

 

From: Scathane

Sent: Sunday 31 October 2004 15:36

To: communications@lodgenet.com

Cc: Evaders99

Subject: Inquiry

 

Dear Madam, Sir,

 

We are a small web community for fans of the game Star Wars Rebellion. One of our members has informed us that as a provider of broadband you seem to consider our website illegal and deny your customers access to our website. I would hereby like to inform you that as a community and website, we do not engage in any illegal activity, nor do we support or otherwise condone our members to do so.

 

Would you please inform me of the motivations underlying this policy? I would be much obliged.

 

Kind regards.

Scathane

Assistant Webmaster to SWRebellion.com

If that doesn't work, you can always use your little Fusion Welder, Astromech Vizier.

WOO to you, Double AA.!!!!!

It will work, trust me. I can be very convincing...

Otherwise he'll switch to Italian mode and have Vinnie and Salvatore play something on the violins for them

 

So, are your problems gone now, AA ? Cause I just informed Evaders after your email to me.

Don Astromech: Vito, any word back from Lodgenet?

 

Vito: Insults, Don Artoo.

 

Don Astromech: Salvatore, Vito. Deal with them. And make it look like an accident.

Welcome back, Antilliles!

 

...yes, I'll still keep calling that mispelled original name of yours. By the way, whatever happened to that? I mean, how did you get it fixed?

Don Astromech: Vito, any word back from Lodgenet?

 

Vito: Insults, Don Artoo.

 

Don Astromech: Salvatore, Vito. Deal with them. And make it look like an accident.

Just my style!

 

BTW, who are Vito and Salvatore?

Your two faithfull C3PO droids.

Any answer from the internet provider?

A tribute to how mental we are...

 

Heh, Mad calm down. They probably have hundreds of mails to answer as it is, all dealing with their obvious idiocy....

The Spam Corps have struck

No reply yet... not even insults...

.... Vito ... Salvatore .... .... play for them

Didn't spot this one double A! Good to see ya dude!

The first answer:

 

From: Ryan, Tim

Sent: Thursday 11 November 2004 20:53

To: Scathane

Subject: RE: Inquiry

 

Scathane,

 

I have looked into the issue you mentioned in your e-mail below. Currently, LodgeNet does not restrict access to any web sites that our guests would choose to access from their hotel rooms. We do however restrict access to certain web sites from our corporate systems so that our employees use the Internet for work related tasks.

 

Like any internet access provider, technical problems can occur but none that I am aware of that would send a message about a particular site being illegal. I would be happy to look into this situation further if you could supply me with some additional details as to what exactly was experienced.

 

I hope this helps to clarify LodgeNet's position. Thanks for taking the time to contact us.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tim Ryan

Special Projects Manager

LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation

 

So, AA, what exactly happened?

Well at least it wasn't there fault... So they say.