Monochrome Newsletter

Issue #5
13th April 2002

This is issue 5 of the periodical newsletter sent out to registered users of Monochrome BBS (http://www.mono.org/) to keep people up to date with events on and around Monochrome. Remember that you can always find more details at the given key-path or website.

If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE from this newsletter, you can change your subscription options in mono at <IIN> or by sending an email to "nl-unsubscribe+XXX@mono.org", substituting your account name for 'XXX'.

Mono Tips
Monoweb
The Monochrome Talker
Announcements
Section News
Meets
Useful Info

Mono Tips

The Mono Logs

A recent poll in the Mono Vote <MV> showed that many people did not know that mono has a suite of log files, which are accessible to all users. These log files show which files have been edited, had comments deleted, printed or mailed.

Perhaps the most useful of these is the Edit Log, which is updated every time a user places an edit in a file. (The only exception is for anonymous files, which are NOT logged.) This is a great way of keeping up with popular files and finding sections you may not have known about.

Similarly, the Delete Log can often be useful for checking if a user has removed a comment from a file, which can often explain an interrupted flow of conversation.

The logs menu is situated off the Monochrome Status screen. To enter the Status screen, press ESC followed by L. This screen shows the current state of the Monochrome software, plus a number of statistics. From the status screen, you can press L again, to access the logs menu. You can always just press ESC, L then L to access it directly, of course.

Monoweb

The Monochrome Website

poppy is the Admin team member co-ordinating the Monochrome Website. Currently, she is overhauling it, and bringing it up to date. There has been much progress with making the site easier to use, and including information about Monochrome. The Monoweb section is at <IW>.

The Monochrome website can be found at http://www.mono.org/, and contains information about sections, staff members, accounts and provides a number of tools, such as account maintenance and status/users on information.

Remember Monochrome is an Amazon affiliate, so if you choose your books or CDs through the mono.org website you help Monochrome!

The Monochrome Talker

Interactive Chat

When she's not up to her elbows in web pages, poppy also co-ordinates 'Talker Parties'. Monochrome has a full-featured talker, which you can access by pressing ESC then T at anytime. The talker is a great way of holding a conversation with one or more people and is easier and more interactive than sending messages back and forth.

The talker parties are a way of ensuring there are plenty of people around to chat with, to have fun and to help you get to know the talker. There are a number of users who are familiar with the Talker, and are happy to help with commands and such. A message is sent to all the users on to notify people when the talker parties start, so you don't miss them! You can always find out more in the talker section at <IT>.

Talker Babble

One of Monochrome's most famous files has had a makeover. Babble, the file where you can talk about pretty much anything, is now talker babble. Instead of making edits as you do with normal files, just go into the Talker Common room and say something. After a short while, it'll appear in the talker babble file! <ITB> & <MGB>.

Announcements

Births & Weddings: In the last month, gozza and chick (aka Dave and Claire) announced that they have got engaged, in the company of swans and geese. Slimey and his wife announced the birth of Nicolas James, (with pictures at http://www.slimey.org/nicholas/). Randalf and scruffy became happily married in a Las Vegas chapel on 7th March, complete with live webcast the event! And on 23rd March, kanga announced the birth of Graeme, weighing in at 8lb. Add your anouncements at <NB>!

Section News

New & Refurbished Sections

Football <RSF> - Premiership to Conference chat and information.
Inquizition <RGU> - New Mono Quiz
Just 1440 mintues <RGWMJ> - Game based on long running radio show
The Club <CC> - Monochrome Mens' Section
Tumbleweed <RGT> - Game similar to a Dutch Auction
The Stage Door <RT> - Theatre, Comedy, Standup and performing
Fuzzy's Logic <RGF> - Lateral Thinking and logic puzzles
Cycling <RSY> - Action on two wheels

Special thanks also to stig, who donated a complete Digital Alpha workstation to Monochrome and madbob, who donated a DLT 40/80 tape drive and tapes. The Alpha and DLT are now in service as tachyon, which is the main file server.

Meets

Planned Meets

London: 19th-21st April 2002, organized by hazard.
New York: 24th-26th May 2002, organized by alexis and arianwen.

You can see the plans, who is coming, and all sorts of information (including plans for Music Festival meets this summer) at the Meet section, moderated by jazz at <MM>.

Useful Info

Connecting To Mono

SSH or telnet to:

meson.mono.org
fermion.mono.org
electron.mono.org

Alternatively, you can connect using the Java client at:

http://www.mono.org/connect/jconnect.shtml

Account Maintenance

You can request account changes at:

http://www.mono.org/cgi-bin/account.cgi

Status Information

You can get information for the status of Monochrome and the MUDs either from mono itself or the website:

Monochrome - <IU>
MUDs - <RUT>

Help

Mono has an on-line context-sensitive help system. To see the on-line help at any time, press the ? key. There are also many reference files in the <I> menu.

If the problem pertains to one of the sections, send a message to the Moderator who maintains the section. (You can usually see who moderates the section by checking the top of the menus: there will be a user name on the top-right hand side of the screen, at the end of the blue line.)

Alternatively, you can send a message to a Monitor or member of the Admin team. See below for more details on these users.

You can always send a message to the pseudo-user help. These messages are regularly read by the admin team.

Finally, you can email monoadm@mono.org with the subject 'assistance'.

Complaints

If you have a complaint to make about another user's behaviour you can register a complaint in one of two ways:

Send a message to monocomp
Email monoadm@mono.org with the subject line 'complaint'

If you want advice or an informal chat regarding a potential complaint, please contact culf, a Monitor or member of the Admin team.

Monitors

Monitors are experienced users who you can contact for help or advice.
aahz bluemeat darien paiste ritchie t-lawson tadpole tugs winston

Admin Team

The admin team look after the running of Monochrome.
clout culf flippy norm poppy rik tjfas

Newsletter

If you have something to contribute to a future newsletter, or there is something you'd like to see mentioned, please let us know! Send a message to clout or culf, or email mononews@mono.org.

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