Raphael Rutherford

Over the last few months, I've had more and more problems with rezzing in-world. (Most of) the 3D rezzes pretty fast, but there are no textures, everything is grey. Issue solved, clearing ALL caches solved this.

There seem to new spamming trend in SL. I repeatedly (daily) get spam from various stores and creators. It's sent by an object, so it cannot be blocked. Well, it CAN be blocked, but it doesn't make a difference, the spam message get through anyway. Here's an example: [MODERATOR EDIT: Identifying information removed] The owner of the object, in this case, is [Moderator Edit: Username Removed], 5 years+ old. Member of 10-20 groups, which ALL has "SPAM" in the name and seems to be groups that teach how to promote stuff with spam. Blocked the owner too, makes no difference. Going to the location if the object in [Moderator Edit: Region Name Removed], reveals a HUGE array of "servers" that sends spam. The way it's done is that these servers cycle though large lists of SL residents and check their online status. When they find someone who's online, they send a spam message similar to the one above. I get at least one a day, normally 2-3 from different shops. I report it EVERY time to Linden Labs, but, as usual, nothing happens. I find it sad that it's now legit to spam SL users, and afraid this might be what put an end to my, so far, 16 year+ SL experience. Any others who get the same, and either know how to get rid of it, or know how to wake up LL on this? I've tried contacting them directly, which is almost impossible, and they obviously just referred me to use the in-world report. I could as well bang my head in the wall it seems. /Raph

Thank you all for your input. Beats me why there has to be covenants telling me how high my chimney can be, and not just that I need to keep X % of free water around my region. Thanks Amethyst, I realize that not having a RL contract might jeopardize the idea of open sailing waters e.t.c. Didn't really think of that. This means that if we want to expand "our" waters, we'd need to go into the landlord business and rent out regions. Ironically enough, this will make us competitors to Fruit Islands e.t.c. Had they allowed us in with non-build-restricted regions, this would not have been so. We'd simply have rented the regions from them. Funny world.

I've spent the last week trying to find out how to place 3 new homesteads in a location where they have access to sailable water. We simply want to be able to sail, without succumbing to all kinds of covenants and restrictions, This seems more or less impossible. A new regions cannot be placed closer that one grid location from the stretches of Coastal Waterways that Linden have around mainland. Existing sailable areas exist, for instance the huge Black Sea area. This would be a perfect place to place the regions, except that United Sailing Sims (USS) have MONOPOLY on this area, and it's not possible to locate there with less than 5 regions and aggreeing to follow their covenant, which we cannot accept. There is also groups of private islands, like the Fruit Islands, Eden, Irish Estates, e.t.c., but none of these are interested in allowing us to hook up a side towards their areas. Most of these areas are themed in various ways so, in a way, I can understand that they would not want anyone to attach, who'd not follow their style. I find it a but surprising that there is no "free" group of regions who'd want the sailing/flying ability, but not the limitations. Question is now - do anyone have a suggestion to how and where we could possibly locate these regions so we can get this water access? Alternative two, create our own small group of water based regions. Anyone else wanting to sail without the silly limitations could then hook up to us. The more the merrier. Suggestions welcome. /Raph

Needed ASAP. We want 3 to rent connected homestead regions (we can pay the fee for moving, if necessary). These MUST have access to sailable water, preferably the Black Sea, but other places might work, if there's at least 10 connected regions with sailable water. We can NOT accept any covenant rules (such as required by the USS, for instance) except that we'll leave space (and prims) to sail and wont put up ban-lines. No limitation on buildings, style or terraforming is acceptable. contact me ingame: Raphael Rutherford or by email: Raphael.Rutherford@gmail.com