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Cheetah
79 lines
3.0 KiB
Cheetah
Subject: Welcome to the cosmic.voyage!
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Welcome ~USERNAME,
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Your new account has been established. you can ssh into
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cosmic.voyage with the ssh key you supplied on registration.
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Your password is "PASSWORD". please change it when you log in for
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the first time with 'passwd' like so:
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$ passwd
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While we don't use passwords for logins, they can be used on the
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system for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. Our email on Cosmic Voyage is
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limited to sending and receiving with other users here, and other
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pubnix servers and the tildeverse.
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This server is dedicated to the collaborative storytelling of the
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human stellar diaspora. We continue to add other features over
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time that are designed to support the story. For instance, we have
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an IRC daemon here that connects as part of irc.tilde.chat. You
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can join and visit the #cosmic room to discuss this server. New
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features are often added to the interactive menu which can be
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accessed by running:
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$ menu
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To begin contributing to Cosmic Voyage you must claim a ship,
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colony, or outpost and take on its story. Claiming your ship is as
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easy as running the 'ship' command in the menu, or on the command
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line like so:
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$ ship
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You will be prompted for a name of your ship/outpost/colony.
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Spaces in ship names are allowed, but please avoid using unicode
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characters in the names. You can write unicode in your logs, but
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the scripts don't play nice with the special characters as
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filenames. Once your ship is active, you are the only one with
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access to its story.
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Once you have claimed your ship/outpost/colony, it will appear for
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you as a directory in ~/ships/. To author a new message on the
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QEC, create a new text file in your ship's directory (must end in
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.txt). You can also browse to the message creation section of the
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menu and create a new message there.
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Author your message in whatever format fits your theme. Add as
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much character as you like. You can add fake headers as if your
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ship is relaying the message through a computer system or design
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some pretty ascii-art. The only important constraint on your
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message is that it remains no wider than 80 columns. The website
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and gopher site do not wrap your content, so long lines will
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display poorly. Try to keep it neatly wrapped at 80 or fewer
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columns.
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When you're ready for the message to be posted to the relay, run
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the 'log' command in the menu or terminal like so:
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$ log
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This will link to your message to the QEC (making it available to
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the world to read), but the message is still totally in your
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control. If you need to change something later, just edit the
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file. There's no need to run log again.
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Logged messages will post immediately to the web, gopher, and gemini.
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Updated messages will be reflected as soon as you save them.
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If you have any questions, send a local mail to tomasino, or
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fosslinux, or join us in IRC.
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Also, please consider joining the cosmic.voyage mailing list!
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https://lists.tildeverse.org/postorius/lists/cosmic.lists.tildeverse.org/
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Thanks so much for joining. we can't wait to read your stories.
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- the admins
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