Subj : Re: last call
To   : Kay Shapero
From : Scott Adams
Date : Sun Mar 03 2002 12:22 pm

 -=> Quoting Kay Shapero to Scott Adams <=-

 KS>> OK, folks - I see no traffic in here for months.  It's only still 
 KS>> here because I was automatically updating it for Scott and forgot 
 KS>> to stop when he left.  So - I'm relisting AD&D (which expired, but 
 KS>> still has users) and using it for precisely the sort of thing this 
 KS>> echo was for. Meet me over there, and unless there's some pressing 
 KS>> need I'll turn this one off in a month or so. 
 
 SA>         Rather not go there since I'm not a big D&D Fan though

 KS> You already were there until Scott Royall closed down - he was gating
 KS> the two echoes together.  Fact is both echoes are and have been for
 KS> quite some time for the discussion of roleplaying games and for the
 KS> playing of them and no rule system is specified.

        I know they were merged and that's why my posting in the
        echo decreased greatly.  I rarely posted after that.


 KS> As it stands, RECFRP has the more general name, but almost no users
 KS> (we didn't even get hit with the Spam Heard Round The World recently).
 KS> AD&D has a specific (and now misleading) name, but it's got the
 KS> users.  It's obvious pouring one bucket into the other is a good idea.
 KS> The trouble is, no matter which bucket I pick, there will be a
 KS> problem.  If I pick AD&D for the existing players, I risk losing
 KS> anybody who thinks it's just for TSR games.  If I pick RECFRP for the
 KS> name, I risk losing the folks already using AD&D who are unlikely to
 KS> go hunting for another echo that does what they've already got, even
 KS> given directions (I've asked them already).  A third echo with a new
 KS> name gives us the worst of both worlds, combined with the downtime of
 KS> adding it to backbones and getting people to link to it..
        
       I can see your problem.  Personally I'd go with Recfrp
       to cover all games.

 KS> There's a precedent - TREK, which used to be for discussing Star Trek
 KS> has generalized to discussion of all science fiction tv and movies. 
 KS> SFFAN would probably have been a better place for that (in fact that's
 KS> a lot of what used to be discussed there), but everybody went away and
 KS> I finally gave up and unlisted it. 

        A hard decision for sure..


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