World: r3wp

And I don't have the time to write one myself :(

Just speaks to standards ...

File sharing bug: Initial comment can only be 100 chars long. Subsequent 
edits can be longer than 100 chars.

Are the proxy settings in AltMe working? I tried to run AltMe from 
work by inserting the proxy settings but it fails to connect to the 
internet. The docs on the website would seem to suggest that there 
is no proxy but having them in the settings confused me.

Many proxies don't work

Eg. squid with Rebol

IMHO I think you should consider what message your user naming convention 
send to new users. For me it says that you treat some persons differently. 
That is bad if you like more people to come here. No one want's to 
be treated differently. Either you let everyone use whatever name 
they like or all use the same rules.

We have a username convention here :) ?

Hmm, I guess, that some of the administrators here enforce a convention, 
some may not, and that is why there is a "mix".

I thought you can just give a preferred user name on signup.

But it's a long time since I signed up, so .... :)

I don't mind funny nicks as long as the full name is also there. 
Makes it easier to find out who is who in other social networks.

The preferred convention is real names.


People have been grandfathered in (from the previous worlds) with 
nick names.


If you do not like the member name you have, it can be changed if 
you put a good case to the moderators.

I wouldn't mind changing my ID to my real name if that can help.

Don't change anything for me. It's your call to choose how you want 
things to appear for the not yet initialized Rebol visitors. You 
already filter away the visitors pretty well by using AltME as the 
main forum ...

That's not our decision. Users choose which method is best for communication 
and so far, AltME holds up pretty well. Users are free to use open 
forums like rebolforum.com or the Synapse forum.

Or join the #rebol IRC channel on freenode.

If forgot the reason, why some groups are prefixed by "!" ? Is that 
for products or does it mean commercial or what?

IIRC, it was for products.

Particularly products written in REBOL. The !REBOL* groups are named 
like that because REBOL is partly written in REBOL.

Thanks!

I started adding the ! and ~ to help denote products that were REBOL, 
and offtopic stuff "~", etc.  

Sort on Alpha, anf it becomes very clear.

I use AltME on two computers. Is there a way to have the messages 
colored unread only once, regardless of which PC I use to access 
my account?

Not that I know of.

If you click on the little wrench over the groups list, you can mark 
all messages read once.

That was planned, but never implemented

I added links to Boron and World to "Links" under checklists.

Changed Boron to the website home, and added an extra link for this 
source code repository

Removed the link to the Boron source code repository, as this link 
is also prominently present on the Boron website.

Apparently not prominently enough, considering that some people here 
think it's closed source

Is there a newer than v0.4.2 AltME client version for Linux Debian?

Found the link for v1.1.24

That's also ancient. You should get 1.2.21, which auto-updates to 
1.2.25

Official 0.4.2 available on AltME site works OK on gNewSense and 
auto-upgrades to 1.2.25

which works OK, too

That's not 0.4.2, that's version 1.2.21 for REBOL platform 042, meaning 
x86 Linux

The beta links on the site are dangerous and should have been removed 
years ago

AltMe behaves oddly. It does no longer show groups with new messages 
in red, even it loads down some of the new messages

I have had that issue with private messages at time here. Maybe due 
to the size of the world?

after a few restarts it went away. maybe un unknown problem with 
the syncing

Was that in one group, or in multiple groups?

This happened only for a short time in a few groups. Syncing was 
slow for all the groups

Quick not, I own the domain www.rebolcentral.org, it is coming up 
for renewal, I don't plan to renew, if anyone wants it I will hepl 
transfer it.

Quick note.

Sorry not sure if this is the right place to ask. I'm overwhelmed 
with some many forum/place to post, and visit. I want to find a copy 
of Excel Dialect, but it's no longer available at http://www.robertmuench.de/download/, 
could you help me to locate a copy of it? Thanks a lot!

Rebol central sounds like a good place to collate information on 
all the rebol derivatives

This is a very large world Yu Shen, so no worries. I see Endo sent 
it, but you can always post in I'm New, so people know you're just 
finding your way around.

To whom it may concern: I guess that it might make sense to define 
a new REBOL-SYNTAX group discussing REBOL syntax, and its description 
at

    https://github.com/rebolsource/rebol-syntax

Could you please explain to us poor, what is the aim of the project? 
(probably in different group). Is it e.g. for clones to be eventually 
compatible syntax wise?

Intended purposes:

1) making a formal syntax description available
2) for the purposes of clone definition
3) any other purpose one sees fit