tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 17 20:47:11 1998
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Re: Klingon MSN
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Jimmyr17 wrote:
>Where is the Klingon part of MSN? Has it moved to startrek.com?
Yes, it has. I quote from a recently-posted FAQ on all startrek.com
newsgroups:
"Star Trek: Continuum began as a joint effort between Paramount Digital
Entertainment (a division of Paramount Pictures Corp.) and the Microsoft
Network (MSN). STC first started up in the summer of 1996 (exact date?)
and was initially available only to members of MSN. The first newsgroups
were MSN proprietary groups accessible only via the MSN software. In the
spring of 1997, MSN began a migration to NNTP news servers for all online
content and the STC groups were among the first to make the move. However,
the content of STC was still only available to MSN subscribers. In January
of 1998, STC completed a migration to a standalone service available to
the general public. STC groups are now maintained on a separate, public
NNTP server."
Three general messages posted at the time of the move:
From: Leslie Wade <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand
Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: Newsgroups have moved!
The STAR TREK: CONTINUUM newsgroups have moved to a new server:
news://news.startrek.com
The newsgroup for Star Trek Expert Okrand can now be found at
news://news.startrek.com/startrek.expertforum
For a list of all the new newsgroups, in ST:CONTINUUM go to Communications
and click Newsgroups.
The global community of Star Trek fans is now participating in all-new
discussions there, so please join us!
Leslie Wade
STAR TREK: CONTINUUM Staff
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From: Marc Wade <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 18:16:09 -0800
Newsgroups: startrek.expertforum
Subject: Welcome!
Ask questions of experts in Star Trek fiction and fact, both behind the
scenes and in front of the camera.
Our regular contributors include Larry Nemecek, author of "The Star Trek:
The Next Generation Companion" and Marc Okrand, creator of the Klingon
language and author of several books on that topic.
-- Marc Wade
Senior Producer/Designer
STAR TREK: CONTINUUM
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From: Marc Okrand <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:35:25 -0500
Subject: The Klingon language and this forum
Hello to everyone.
After coping with some fascinating (for some) computer problems and then
working out the switch from the old MSN Klingon language forum to this new
newsgroup, I am finally up and running.
I've read the messages about whether discussions on the Klingon language
should be in this newsgroup or in a separate one. I'll let that issue
resolve itself as time goes along. For now, I hope to hear not only from
Klingon language experts (and there are many out there who can claim that
title), but also from those who are just curious about how the language
works, how it came about or how it's changed, what Worf (or Gowron or Dax
or even Kruge or Chang, for that matter) is really saying though sometimes
this requires a bit of study, especially when they're speaking colloquially
or using ritualistic speech), and so on.
I'll try to check in every week or so and answer any questions I can.
(Questions involving fine -- or even not so fine -- points of grammar
usually don't lend themselves to quick responses, however, so have a little
patience there.)
Qapla'!
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Voragh