****************** WHOAH! *******************
We're overloading the list!
Time for some more rules :(
Rule 1:
Stop posting to the general mailing list. So far, despite
my problems transmitting, I have been hearling (almost) all
of you without problems.
If you are really sure you need to get to me another way,
send a message to traveller-request and ask James to
bounce ..er.. forward the message to me.
Richard's corallary: Don't mail to me and copy the list, too.
Rule 2:
Keep up your interest. It might get hard to do that here for
a while. Things are going to slow down a little bit for a week
or two.
I am now the TOPIC COORDINATOR for the game. This means that
even if you do post to the mailing list with PBEM material, it
will get forwarded to me, and make some people work harder.
It also means I'm scrambling to VERIFY every address is working
properly. Several of you will finally get to hear me, since I
am devoting most of my game energy to that. I don't have mailing
list software, so I'm doing this manually (if it's possible to do
anything other than type manually on a computer.)
Rule 3: (mainly for me)
I am going to gather all the messages for an entire week, digest
and prepare as appropriately, and then try to take care of ALL
posting and forwarding on Tuesday. This means your messages will
take seemingly forever to get to their recipient. Sorry. Too
many of us for me to devote more time to it. It does mean we can
make a jump in *real time* :-) (fantasy time?)
More practically, it means try to get your information for turn
x to me by or during the weekend preceding that turn.
Other things:
We'd better stick with double-blind.
Although we'd all like to get hopping right away, it's undoubtedly better
to hang on another week or so for me to close out the rolls and finalize
the workings of these nefarious mailers. I've thought about letting people
send mail directly to each other and copy me. Probably a bad idea. Then
we risk many of us having mail problems and really slowing us down. Better
to get my stuff working right and then forward messages as needed. (great
idea I just had - *fog of battle* - don't forward! fiendish :-). )
Use agora if you can.
Finally, everyone please use my agora address in preference to the oresoft
address (both given below). I do understand if you feel a need to use
the oresoft address, though. (I'd *better* :-)) And *please* only send
mail to ONE address, not to both. I duplicated about 50 messages and then
accidentally erased about 30. Don't think I killed anyone, but it'd
sure go easier on the party if'n the ref didn't grumble so much :-).
Turn forthcoming!
Richard Johnson
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