OCEANIA ORACLE

ISSUE #12- 12/03/94
No Nonsense New Nation News - © 1994

Index

• THE WEB GROWS
• OCEANIA STILLS AND ANIMATION UPDATE
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
• SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED
• OCEANIA PIONEER JOURNAL
• MUTUAL LINKS
• PUBLICITY
• ELECTION FRAUD

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I would like to thank Steve Smith for taking over the web part of the Oceania Mall. Good luck Steve!

OCEANIA STILLS AND ANIMATION UPDATE

I think that the reason for your "explosion," which is the reason that I discovered OCEANIA, is that you were put onto the "cool site of the day" site at http://www.infi.net/cool.html I know that a LOT of people check out the cool site, because it's..... well...... cool! Not to classify you with all the other cool sites (Star Trek, Entomology, Aardvark something-or-other, etc.) but I believe that the "cool site" seems to have been a major free advertisement for you! I subscribed just because I was curious as to what Oceania is, as I had never heard of it. As I read the site, I didn't even know if you were for real. I thought it was a joke! Anyway, just letting you know that I believe I found what appears to be at least a contributing factor in your "Web Explosion."

Phillip is obviously right and we received 38,141 accesses that day.

>From Rickie Timmons:

I'm sure that England thought the idea of independent new colony in America was pretty silly. People like Thomas Edison, Joe Montana, and George Foreman were probable told they were silly and maybe even made fun of as they went through the various stages of forging their dreams into reality. Anyone can dream, only a few of us have the fortitude to walk the winding road pot holed with disapointment to reach the forge with which to shape our dreams into reality. The trick is to live the dream, if it remains real to you then it does not matter what anyone else thinks.

Damifino

SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED

I would like to thank Chris Cooper of QuoteCom (Stock Quotes on the Internet) for his offer to establish a mutual link.

PUBLICITY

Considering that I decided to create the country of Oceania based on my experience with election fraud in the U.S., this additional experience of election fraud has made my blood boil. I have been blocked in the past by having valid signatures for a ballot initiative being invalidated and I have also been defrauded by ballot stuffing.

My story:

1) I had an accepted posting for a RFD for soc.culture.oceania. My posting was accepted for the moderated group news.announce.newgroups 2) When I mentioned a spelling error to the moderator a few days later I was told that soc.culture.oceania was rejected and that I would have to seek the advice of an elite Usenet gang. 3) I spoke for a few days with this gang and was given permission to post a RFD for soc.culture.virtual.oceania. 4) When voting time came around, I asked when the vote would be and got no response from the person in charge of counting the votes. 5) Eventually I complained to the elite Usenet gang and they eventually responded saying that my suggested name was unacceptable and they provided no alternative name. Nor did they provide any concrete plan for finding a name acceptable to them.

Blocking access for a vote *is* a form of election fraud.

The culprits:

The gang is located at group-advice@uunet.uu.net. I spoke with David C. Lawrence/tale@uunet.uu.net and Una Smith/una@minerva.cis.yale.edu in this gang.

Finally, I was told by one observer:

"I've watched stuff like this on the nets for over 10 years now, and it's simply not possible (absent a specific and verified statement) to attribute anything that happens on the net to malice when it could just as well be explained by indifference, laziness, and/or stupidity."

I hope this person is right and the situation is quickly resolved.

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