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mojo (310 posts) Click to EMail mojo Click to send private message to mojo Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-23-00, 06:15 PM (Pacific)
"Just wondering..."
This board is great...and the discussions have really helped me tweak my WizGold adventures. I just wanted to thank everyone. And I'm wondering if anyone could/would be willing to fill me in on how this all got started...how long you've been around...just some general history from a few grizzled veterans of the WizWars...I'd sure be interested to hear all about it, if anyone'd care/ have time to maybe do a brief (or lengthy!) recap!
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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-23-00, 09:02 PM (Pacific)
1. "Well, you asked ..."
Over the past almost 3 years (as far back as I know of), there were (and still is) the Official Wizardry 8 Bulletin Board, (originally) run by the Vault Network.

From time to time, for various reasons, they would shuck it all and start their boards all over again, on a new host. We never really got any real support from their staff with issues of people flaming the board, spamming, and just getting registered (again and again, every time they dumped the board and started a new one).

Back around the end of last year, Vault Networks were bought/absorbed/whatever by IGN/Snowball. We were dumped yet again and again around the beginning of this year. The latest iteration was no better - the worst so far IMO - still login/registration problems, slow access, no HTML in posts, still no support even after some of us offered to help moderate. So, fed up with the whole thing I started an interim board, which was live for about a month, until I bought the software to run this board ... and fired it up.

The general consensus is this one is better (and many would add ... at least we have a moderator )

Not to mention those cool emotion icons })

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mojo (310 posts) Click to EMail mojo Click to send private message to mojo Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-24-00, 03:20 AM (Pacific)
2. "RE: Well, you asked ..."
Thanks Llevram...(Marvell reversed, I presume) and please keep up the great work!
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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-24-00, 06:12 AM (Pacific)
3. "Ok, on one condition"
You stop revealing my secret identity

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Marc (33 posts) Click to EMail Marc Click to send private message to Marc Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-24-00, 11:21 AM (Pacific)
4. "To: Marvell the Grizzled"

Wasn't there a board before VN came along?

Or was that a VN product as well?

Marc

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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-24-00, 05:19 PM (Pacific)
5. "I dunno"
If it was, it was before my time.

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DrSlop (297 posts) Click to EMail DrSlop Click to send private message to DrSlop Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
May-25-00, 08:03 AM (Pacific)
6. "RE: To: Marvell the Grizzled"
VN was the first board for W8 -- though before that time Charles used to post fairly regularly to the newsgroups.

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