![]() Since stuff was searched out by tags people tended to follow it decently - but if somebody throws in a combo of tags you like alongside some real 'sicko' tags. Tagging your stories right was basically the honor system. Right alongside some of the best because back in the day, it was the only shop in town. Thus, it was a perfect place for all the worst things to get posted. Again, no humans at the gate making sure you kept it clean. The system gave you the ability to make your own little website (mine was ~tenyari or something.), and you got FTP access to post directly into both that and the FTP archive. Asstr blackwind full#Once ASSTR was in full swing, you could get an author account by filling in a form and clicking submit. Any post to automatically ended up on ASSTR if it had story tags and whatever headers where needed to declare your post a story and not your random opinions about the topics of the day. The answer to that one is ASAP.Ĭlick to expand.ASSTR was originally just a web-clone of Usenet's. But if I get 'Rey I need to know when the site'll be back up' I won't bother passing that on. If you really really need something passed to Rey-something that just can't wait-you can email me and I'll pass it on. (I'm posting this 'cos Rey's Usenet laptop is in the shop) ASSTR/ASSM *will* be back up and working properly, have no doubts about that. ASSM likely will remain devoid of stories, since the fw really doesn't like incoming email, even when it is more or less working.Īll involved apologize-but also note that all involved are more frustrated and generally po'd about this than anyone else. Meanwhile:Īccess to ASSTR will be spotty at best. This will take at least a couple of weeks. Then it'll be shipped to the data center and installed. Mike has the replacement firewall(a box *known* by Mike to work nicely with their distro of Linux), and is setting it up, configuring, etc. Rey & Mike may or may not get it into halfassedly functional mode again, but if they do, it'll no doubt roll over again. Here is the latest info I've seen on the status of ASSTR. ![]()
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