Re: The Glorantha Digest

From: Shannon Appel <appel_at_chaosium.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:50 -0700

> Actually, I imagine in the Hero Wars era you will be absolutely as
>welcome to post RuneQuest rules suggestions here as you are now (that is,
>of course you are welcome providing it is a question that is more
>appropriately discussed here than on the RQ-Rules list), but interest will
>gradually wane, and extrapolating from the RQ Rules to answer Gloranthan
>questions will be even less authoritative than it is now. I would assume
>Shannon plans to continue as he has been doing, and most of the time
>exercise benign neglect allow us to wallow in our own much, whatever that
>may be.

Yes.

> It was my understanding that the transfer of the Glorantha Digest
>to Chaosiums server occurred largely due to problems with Lorens former
>server, and that the Glorantha Digest had separated from the Runequest
>forums (rq-rules at that point) some time before, and that both had been
>going strong.

Yes. I actually hosted it on my home machine (erzo.org) for a while too, in the interim.

> I have been on this digest in some form or another for 9 years now
>(since Andrew Bells occasional missives in 1989), and I noticed no
>particular drop or growth in interest in the digest in moving from Loren to
>Shannons benign overlordship.

Great. And I've been on the digest since sometime around 1990, so I'm aware of history.

Shannon

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