The various mods did muse some time ago about trying to narrow down the purpose of the lists. Something like the following was mooted, but never enforced:
World of Glorantha: Discussions about Glorantha (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldofGlorantha/)
HeroQuest-RPG: Discussions about how to use HeroQuest to run games in a setting, including but not limited to Glorantha. With HeroQuest Core becoming a generic platform the idea was that this list should reflect using HeroQuest for any genre
HeroQuest-rules: Discussions about the HeroQuest game engine mechanics and how to use them to achieve effects http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HeroQuest-rules/
Obviously these lines are fine in places, and I believe it is usually better not to swap discussions between forums (which puts them out of context for folks not in all forums).
As an example though, let's say we were discussing the Kresh wagon people then you might use the forums as follows
WoG: Questions about the Kresh, playing a Kresh focused game, history, culture, traditions, secrets and lore. H-RPG: Questions about how to write up a Kresh genre pack, such as occupations, keywords, cults. Questions on how well theism, animism, or sorcery fits Kresh cults would be here.
Questions about things like scenario ideas could probably live happily in either location.
H-Rules: Questions about how to handle specific mechanical questions, such as how to model a Kresh trading encounter
As I say we never really agreed to that set of rules formerly, but I think it works for most of the mods if it works for you guys.
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