After a fair amount of deliberation, TDR administration has decided that,
due to an overwhelming lack of traffic, the TDR SIG Mail Lists will be
shut down and all TDR discussion will be merged back into the regular
TML forum.
Does this mean TDR is dead? Absolutely not!! What it means is that the
splintering effect generated as a result of the establishing seperate
channels for developing TDR will be eliminated. Everyone who is a TML
member will be able to follow (and participate in) the discussions
involving the development of TDR. "Traveller Done Right" is still a
going concern, and Metlay and I will make sure that any and all reasonable
suggestions for modification and enhancement of existing MT rules will
be rolled into TDR as it evolves. The archive for TDR will be maintained
as well. Anyone will be able to submit complete rulesets to the archivist
(me) for review and distribution. TDR now has it's own directory on Sunbane,
for those of you able to access the TML archives. We will be placing all
reviewed TDR rule submissions in that directory, after they've been evaluated.
So, the TDR SIGs will be accepting mail until midnight, Friday, March 15th,
after which time they will shut off for good, except for the TDR Admin mail
address ([email removed]) which will remain activated for the
forseeable future. We would also like to thank Burt Choinski, Dan Corrin,
Paul Dale, Rob Dean, Iain Fogg, Matthew Harelick, Tony Hayes, George William
Herbert, Adrian Hurt, Bertil Jonell, Bill Morrison, Rob Poole, Mark Power,
and Eric Sergienko for their heavy participation and for their excellent
input in the areas of combat, medicine, physics, and vehicles. I'm sure that
most, if not all, the new proposals will ultimately find their way into the
first full release of TDR (whenever that may be :-)).
One last thing. We would like to have a set of submission reviewers for
rules submitted to TDR, specifically in the areas of combat, physics,
vehicles, and medicine. We would prefer reviewers to have some background
in the area they volunteer to review (i.e. combat reviewers should have
a fair background in military weapons, ballistics, and some physics). I
already have plans for some TML readers to be reviewers, even though they
don't know it yet.:-) If you'd like to be a TDR reviewer, please send a
letter to the tdr_admin address (shown above) telling us what areas you'd
like to review and what qualifications you have to review those areas.
Then we'll sort out who does what.
Thanks again and remember, the SIGs may be dead but TDR is definitely not.
Keep those ideas and suggestions rolling in! Don't let the concept die.
Later,
- Mark F. Cook (TDR Archivist)
USMail: User Interface Technical Support
Hewlett-Packard - Interface Technology Operation
[address removed]
INTERNET: [email removed]
[email removed]