I hereby designate the official name of the alternate-rules project to
be TDR, short for Traveller Done Right. I hereby declare myself in charge
of TDR, with final editorial rights over what is and isn't considered
part of the approved package. I hereby declare that TDR will be public
domain and will be distributed via Email, and state my intention to
prevent any and all attempts to inform either GDW or DGP of our work,
knowing full well that both companies will refuse to believe that a project
of this magnitude would be attempted without hope of monetary gain, hence
encouraging copyright infringement suits and the ruin of the careers of
several promising young RPG writers, myself included. I hereby order that
only vanilla ASCII be used for rules submissions, and that the Archivist
reserve the right to keep or refuse any submission violating these rules.
I hereby declare computer software to be an unnecessary fringe project of
the TDR push, and leave it open for another user group to jabber about and
argue over until it dies of inertia-- TDR will consist of hard copy ONLY.
I hereby designate Mark Cook as the Archivist for all TDR materials, and
declare my intention to delete without forwarding any material on TDR sent
to me from here on. I hereby ask any and all individuals who refuse to
abide by these rules to go stick their collective head in a pig. I hereby
request that any and all individuals who are serious enough about making
these rules work and work well prove their intentions by submitting rules
packages to Mark at their earliest opportunity, and by calling me at
[phone removed] evenings and weekends AFTER 12PM, effective Saturday, and
be willing to back up their wind with results.
We will worry about redistribution of material when and if we have anything
worth redistributing.
metlay
[Whew! The original subject line was TDR: The Word From On High, but
metlay gave me permission to replace it with a stronger title that I
suggested -- James]