long postings

A thread of 2 messages, 14 January 1993 to 15 January 1993, in the order they were sent.

#5123 long postings

Bruce Pihlamae · 14 January 1993

Mark Watson [email removed] writes:
> Finally, can I ask the person who submitted the very long non
> Traveller PBEM description please to desist. I know that I am in a
> minority in that I actually pay for my traffic, but if we do go off on
> a tangent I would prefer it to be brief. Sorry if this is not the
> majority view, but it is mine (maybe a ruling, James?)

James writes:
> I assume you are referring to Archive-Message-Number 5073 by Quincey
> Kozial. I appreciate you stating your opinion (indeed, thanks for all
> your ideas and comments on the TML!). However, I feel compelled to
> defend Quincy's posting as a reasonable interpretation of the TML
> guidelines. The official ruling as it stands is in the TML Orientation
> message everyone gets when they sign up for the TML:
>
> ... much deleted ...


Perhaps a better way for Quincey Kozial to have distributed the game
details would have been for him to simply post a very short summary
and then those interested in TML could have asked for a fuller posting.


Bruce...     [email removed]

#5124 Re: long postings

TML Administrator · 15 January 1993 · reply to #5123

Good suggestion Bruce.  The orientation message now reads:

    DESCRIPTION OF THE LIST
    ...
    Also there are a number of you out there (you know who you are), who
    are interested primarily in other gaming systems, but want to
    transfer concepts embodied in Traveller to other systems. For
    reasons listed below (see CONTENT), lengthy non-Traveller messages
    are discouraged.
    ...
    CONTENT
    ...
    It's okay to discuss other game systems at length on the TML if they
    are discussed in a Traveller-related manner (example:
    comparison/contrast). However, long non-Traveller messages are
    expensive for those who pay for TML mail delivery byte-by-byte, so
    if it's not related to Traveller, keep it to a short announcement of
    an offline discussion.

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