________________________________________________________________________________ dear etoy.SHAREHOLDER, FRIEND, TOYWAR-ACTIVIST, after sending out the TOYWAR game invitation (on friday / last seconds of the old century) a neutral research commission found out that more than 80 percent of all recruited TOY-AGENTS failed the registration process. http://www.toywar.com/registration/index.php3?advisor=rolux+code=68110615 The etoy.RECRUITERS encourage all of you to try hard. it is just a question of your connections (an invitation from another subscribed toy-soldier is needed), intelligence, and endurance to enter the etoy.RESISTANCE platform http://www.toywar.com . we hope the community understands that we can not accept every curious user in this extreme media war zone. etoy has to protect itself from spies, enemies and naive terrorists. that's why this selection takes a few days before the actual battle starts. etoy can not risk digital suicides and the injury of innocent and unexperienced users. as soon as the first 700 elite pioneers have formed a strong TOY-TROOP and have organized the battle field the next round will start. we keep you updated. ... as soon as the first toy-bombs are ticking on TOYWAR.com we will issue TOYWAR-GUEST-ACCOUNTS for standard users (without permission to fight) just to observe the net art activities from save seats behind bulletproof windows. in a few days you can also purchase guest accounts at the official TOYWAR-SHOP for 4.99$. http://www.toywar.com/shop also offers the official toywar sound track cd "lullabies for toywar.com". 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AND WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE LAWSUIT ? ******************************************* hundreds of congratulation emails arrived at etoy.TANK17... the underground press titled "glamorous victory of the etoy.CORPORATION (net art giant) over eToys (plastic toy giant)" after wired news reported that eToys Inc. thinks about dropping the lawsuit against the etoy.CORPORATION. this message rushed trough the news last week: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33330,00.html etoy was not able to answer questions yet. .... here is our official press statement: according to our lawyer chris truax the situation is not completely clear. we follow the contradictional statements in the press... and we have the impression that eToys wants to play the good guy now after they saw that the destruction of etoy failed and their massive pressure on the art group provoked a load of bad press (over 100 articles worldwide) and drove their stock down (wired news). it seems they want to look better than they are. we have the strongest impression that the statements they make to the press and the ones they make to our lawyers are not 100% identical: wired.com HEADLINE No.1 on december 30, 1999 etoy: 'The Fight Isn't Over" http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33338,00.html we do not reject talking to eToys but we don´t trust them so far. first they try to kill us (by spending maybe half a million dollars on lawyers), and now they try to turn back the clock and say ...oh this was just a little misunderstanding!? did we miss something? two weeks ago we received a 30 pages fax from one of the biggest newspapers in the us (they got the document from eToys) with the request to comment on the submitted material. eToys quoted the terms "offensive, depraved, insane, obscene, prurient, perverse, destructive, anarchistic, rebellious and anti-social in nature" in direct connection with the etoy.CORPORATION. they sent out screen shots of some awarded and ironic web art services which were not even posted on the etoy.com site since eToys started to operate in 1997. at the same time they offer a cute little plastic soldier of the german SS troops on the eToys site (we dont like this like they dont like the word "f*ck"...) http://www.etoys.com/cgi-bin/buzz.pl?sku=1012690&store=et the board decided to leave communication with eToys to our lawyers. in the meantime the etoy.CREW concentrates on the TOYWAR.community and offers etoy.POINTS to everybody who helps to protect the etoy.com property (with legal tools). while eToys is using the money from their shareholders to pay the extreme expenses of this lawsuit we developed a new avant garde art product called etoy.POINTS. the etoy.POINTS are not etoy.SHARES! they just represent the etoy.CULTURE-VALUE in a very abstract way. there is no connection to financial markets: IT IS ART and we do not force anybody to love it ! but we sell etoy.POINTS to those who like us. they don´t get anything but ART! ...ok: maybe it also gives them the feeling that they support the right side... it could be seen as an "investment" in a higher sense... but it´s not a real(!) investment. ...we "left reality behind" ... long time ago... note: etoy.POINTS are NOT etoy.SHARES and NOT apples or anything else. we hope to see you on toywar.com... your etoy.AGENTS etoy: generating cultural value & global impact ...since 1994 ps: the etoy.BOARD is taking a break. we do not respond to your emails till january 7, 2000. in case of emergency: send sms messages to our cell phones: urgent@toybomb.com (max 160 caracters!) but first: visit the TOYWAR.shop: http://www.toywar.com/shop ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org