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			<pre>Subj: Copy of: LETTER TO EDITOR
			From: Bob Jones, 76712,2212
			To: Rosaleah, xxxxx,xxx

			Dear Editor,

			In issue 12 of the Kymer Clarion, Santalus mentioned that he didn't see a resource update prior to the Starway Cafe opening and that there might be other locales already built, but not opened yet. I wanted to let everyone know that the updates they see are what we call "resource updates". That almost always means "art". Art consists of the building blocks used to "decorate" a locale. Just because the art may exist, waiting to be used, it does not mean the locales have been built yet. In the case of the Starway, most of that art was already installed when you downloaded the software. It's just that the actual locales had not been built and decorated.

			As the world expands, there will be more resource updates. To keep the size of each update small (around 250k), we will expect to have resource updates approximately every two weeks after the release of version 1.0. They should not be taken as a sign that something is definitely going to happen; they are more like maintenance. These will be regular updates which might correct art problems or add small pieces of art to the world. Don't worry that we are slowly taking over your hard-drive, one of our industrious developers has devised an excellent compression method which we hope to implement soon so we don't out grow our welcome on your systems.

			I hope this has helped those with a few update questions. As for the rumors about the Oracles being to the ends of the Jungle, well, I think you will have to ask them yourselves.

			Bob Jones
			WorldsAway World Planning
			Fujitsu Cultural Technologies</pre>

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	From: Bob Jones, xxxxx,xxxx		From: Bob Jones, xxxxx,xxxx
	To: Clover, xxxxx,xxxx		To: Clover, xxxxx,xxxx

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 Sincerely,
 Bob Jones</pre>
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 Bob Jones was the name of a shared account that was used during the beta period of WorldsAway on the CompuServe forums to help keep conversations on track. Members had no idea of how WorldsAway was going to be, outside of some limited press materials such as the Director demo that ended up being somewhat different to the final release. They would often let their imaginations run wild, to the extent where things were being derailed. Bob Jones was created by Scott Moore (Oracle Teresias) to help inform the members of what was going on in an anonymous way and keep the conversation on track.
-This is an archive of these posts. They take place in 1995 and range from July 11th, 1995 until August 17th, 1995. There is one post that came later on October 12th, 1995 but it appears to be an outlier as this is after the beta had concluded.
+This is an archive of these posts. They take place in 1995 and range from July 11th, 1995 until August 17th, 1995. It appears that the account was also used to handle some customer service tasks after the beta period also.
 In addition to public posts, there are private emails featured here from Bob Jones to prospective members. To protect peoples privacy, CompuServe ID's and real names are censored.
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 World Planning Team
 WorldsAway
 Fujitsu Cultural Technologies</pre>

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 Bob "typing cramps" Jones</pre>