Digestible Options

From: etyries_at_btinternet.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:09:03 +0100 (BST)


Ian writes:

> HQ-rpg is a chat in a bar or cafe, the GD a disputation in
> the library.

I dread to think what OpenHeroWars might be, by this analogy...!

> Most people know when they post to the HQ-rpg list if
> they are breaking the rules.

I am a charitable man, and am not sure this is necessarily the case. I can assure you, however, that in all but the most extreme cases public moderator activity would only ever follow a flurry of *private* emails. We get very upset by persistent offenders. As I am charitable, I tend to assume this is due to sheer bone-headed ignorance rather than active malice.

I wrote:

>> 4. I can open it up totally, a la HQ-RPG.

> Not sure I follow....

Thanks for putting me right, Graham. I was reading your posted options along "moderation" rather than "delivery" lines. I urge you to keep the Digest down to just one a day, and also not to put much work into fixing something that ain't broke. Especially not when Secret Master Plans require so much of your time and attention... :-)

Donald writes (and in fairness, so do others):

>> 4. I can open it up totally, a la HQ-RPG.

> I don't see any real problem with this, I don't think the
> subject matter encourages the bitty ill thought out responses
> which tend to plague Yahoo groups.

Yesbut: why tamper with something that is working quite *extraordinarily* well in its current form?

David writes:

> The population [of Sartar] is 180,000 [Genertela Book p.54].

Heh... something I've always wondered is whether that number includes or excludes the Far Point region, which at the time of the Genertela Book is *administratively* part of the Kingdom of Tarsh (pop. 360,000)?

Cheers, Nick

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