LORD Authors News, Issue #4 - LISTBOT Release Notes:
Addendum to the Newsletter - Archived in ccigm-04.zip file.
Prepared on September 20, 2000.

Dear Lord friends, I hope everyone enjoys your reading of this new issue
of my Lord Newsletter.  Please remember and let me know how you like things, and anything you have to suggest about making the next issue
even better. I can't promise shorter since I WANT lots of contributions <G>.  This issue, marks the end of my first year of newsletter writing,
issue-wise.  Come Thanksgiving, it will be the first anniversary of the
date I started writing the first newsletter issue.  This one entered the
finish lane at a healthy 70-72 KB size for both the HTML and Listbot Text
version files.  So it was the biggest one to date, but I think everyone
will find it well worth the download and reading time.  When you are
ready to print the newsletter out, unless you decide to print the three
part sections received via Listbot's LordNews mailing list in your
Email Inbox, use the HTML version, and it will be 18 pages long.

I've noticed some changes that need to be made to the files for Issue #1
and Issue #2, so will be uploading new updates of those two Issues' files
later this week to my Castle Camelot web-site.  Here's what you can expect
to see should you go back and re-read them, once they are updated.  Issue
#1 has the email addresses for authors just listed, and not hyperlinked,
in the HTML version.  Somehow I missed that all these past months.  Issue
#2 has the email addresses hyperlinked to themselves, and I can't recall
why I did it that way.  So I'll change that to where the email address
is linked to the author's name.  Issue #3 looked fine, and the only
update needed common to all three, is to update the URL links in each one
to refer readers, who are new to the LORD Newsletter, to the next issue's
files.   All the links in Issue #4 were checked out, and all looked OK.

One thing I would appreciate everyone doing is this:  Please check your
entries and see if I have the email and website addresses for you presented
correctly.  Its always difficult to get something completely perfect, and
I hope everyone has the right addresses so people can contact them without
problem, should they want/need to do so.  The links to access the new Issue
#4 files will be updated on my Castle Camelot LORD Links Page before I 
update the web-site this morning, along with uploading the final versions
of the HTML page, and the Listbot Release page.  The following stuff is 
some material I decided to write tonight as an archived addition to Issue
#4.  The actual newsletter is large enough as is, so I'm just going to
place this file, ccigm04d.txt, inside the ccigm-04.zip archive.

A one-year anniversary to me seems to be an excellent time to look back,
and say goodbye again to those dearly loved LORD friends who we have lost.
I don't know if they are lost forever, but they aren't reachable by email
anymore, that I know of.  Should anyone have a usable and working address
for these people PLEASE let me know it/them.  Some do still have valid
email addresses, but aren't programming for Lord anymore, so I'm just
going to list them all together.

Lost track of, may still be active:  Bryan Turner, Peter Jackson, and Spencer Vickers, Paul Koukos, Justin Scott. 

Not reachable by email without getting long auto-response letter:
Mike Snyder.  Note: Don't put LORD in subject line of message and
perhaps you might actually get him to respond.  I HATE auto-response
mail, especially when the writer never actually writes back later,
doesn't everyone?

Inactive, nothing released for LORD:  Eric Vinson and Elysium Software.
One realizes that Michael is busy all the time, but why can't you guys
relase those Lord programs you bought and are supposed to be working on
sometime?  Your site doesn't even mention Lord anymore I think.  What's
with that?

Gone but not forgotten:  Joseph Masters, Janet Terry, John Winter, 
Michael Adams, Robert Fogt - stopped Lord programming altogether; 
Joe Marcelletti - don't know what happened to him, but we all are sorry
to have Wildcat Tournament Lord now be unsupported;  Chet Rhodes - also
one who stopped his Lord programming;  Shawn Highfield - not programming
now, but hasn't lost his interest in LORD;  David Simmons and Bryan Stanbridge - both have stopped Lord programming, but are still with us;  Carl Tice, Ben Tiefert, Dawn Bidot and Suzanne Franklin - our dear Lord play guide buddies, both are still interested in Lord, but not active;  Tony Brown, Max Larivee, Thomas Reilly and Brendan Purcell, "Romeo", 
Thomas Torbech, Tom Toothman - inactive, but will do a new IGM if enough
people encourage him.  So everyone please do that.

Assumed totally inactive - couldn't ever get an email response, or
their site seems to be on auto-pilot:  John Elson, Black Omen, Tony
Brown, Paul Koukos and Eric Vinson (listed above also), Michael Barrientos,
Becky Benjamin, Billy England, Shaun Thibault (last name assumed).

All right, here's where feedback will be appreciated.  In this issue,
I've stated that I'm tired of continuing to try to reach people who
don't care to respond, or whose sites appear to be dead, but on life
support.  If you are one of these people, who I've labeled as inactive
and unreachable, please let me know why you have been that way, and
if you wish to be left out of any future email correspondence I do with
Lord authors.

These people will NOT be covered in Issue #5 unless I am able to hear
from them.  Some have not shown any activity in over a year, and it is
time to forget about them for good, I think.  But I want other people's
opinion, as to whether I should cut them off or not.  Here are the names:
(If you're active, and I just forgot to write to you, sorry about the
confusion.)

John Elson, Billy England, Colby Reich, "Black Omen", Stefen Enns,
Becky Benjamin, Tony Brown, Mike Collard, Arctic Productions, No-Name
Productions, Carlton Griffin, Robert Olsen, Andy Phillips, Mad Systems
(Purcell/Reilly), Eric Richardson, Ben Tiefert.

There are probably some other old Lord friends I am not thinking of,
but they would all have been gone for well over two years.  As some of
you will notice in reading the newsletter, I would love to hear from
any old Lord authors and webmasters who might come across this message.
We are all fortunate I think that Lloyd Hannesson came back to us, and
that Michael Everett found our old friend Vamsi Tadepalli and forwarded
his ICQ conversation to me for the newsletter.  I can recall many old
friends and/or LORD web-sites that I miss.   

Dark Lair Software/BBS - Rick Martin;  Gregory Campbell; Trevor Herndon; Aussie Creations - M. Freeman; Avalin Software - Casey Leonard and Rod Swigart; John Maynus "Azor"; Ballistic Labs; Sweet Dreams Software - Aaron Wornom; Brian Bosscher, David Miller, Dekka Visions Software, Wonderland Software - Jay Cochrane; Andrew Doran, Charles Feldmeier,  Nannette Thacker, Chris Macpherson, Chris Fisher, Stephen Oberholtzer, Joshua Eckerman, John Gibbard, John Tucker, Brian May, Jeff Fanjoy, Matt Granberry, Chad Schwartz, David Hasbrouck, David Coburn, Charles Culver,
Charles Mandeville, John Hutton, Marvin Wise, Rafi Bodill, Paul Mullins,
Devon Brooks, Ahkenaton, Tom/Thomas Moore, Dan Buckler, Craig Edgar.
Foxfire, James Cornman - Hybrid Software;  Insane Productions; Jam's Den,
KnightSoft, Chris Larkin, Mamoosoft - Robby Dittman,  MatrixSoft,
Mystic Software, Night Fire Software - John Winter;  Noel Software - Thomas Smith; Charles Mandeville, Steven Blunt, Kyle Parish, PolarShock,
"Romeo", Sherwood Zone and Starlink sites, SlayerSoft,  Steven Millar.

If anyone thinks of any other old Lord authors, and knows how to reach
them, please let them know I'd like to know what they are up to, and
if they'd ever consider updating their old Lord programs, or writing
new ones. Some of the people I've listed were old friends that I met
through their web-sites, or by email, many years ago, when I first
started keeping track of the Lord sites and people.  One sure does
notice a lot of lost sites when you look back and actually see who
has been lost, don't they?

Note:  I've been looking over my old archives for closed Lord sites, and
had never realized before that Eric Vinson was the writer of the Lord II
New World: Exile to Another World.  What happened with that program's
development, I'd love to know.

So everyone, here's your chance to help me prepare for the next Lord
issue.  Everyone is invited to send in entries anytime you wish to,
and I likely won't actually start this next issue until October.  I've
got a new project to do, in connection with one I'm working towards
with Lloyd Hannesson.  I'm going to update the IGM Page from Joseph
Masters site, with every known Lord IGM listed, along with last known
version number, author's name with any valid email address hyperlinked,
author's web-site if one is available, and removal of the comments parts.
I don't need them, and getting rid of those short reviews will result
in a much shorter web-page.  Once this is done, anyone who would want
to, can always access it from my web-site, and be able to write messages
to people, or visit their web-sites, knowing what they'd written.

I'd love to consider doing something like this for Lord II IGM authors, but I'm not that crazy.  Someone else can tackle a project like that if they
want to do so.  I don't have a list of email addresses for the hundred plus
Lord II igm authors, most of whom, I seem to recall from working on the
Official LORD II IGM Archive's review pages for Bobby Queen, don't have
a web-site.  *IF* I had a list of valid email addresses for all the Lord
II igm writers, and a list of any web-sites they might have by now, I'd
be willing to consider working on an additional Lord web-page to cover them.   I guess that's all I wanted to say to conclude this Listbot
mailing for the fourth newsletter issue.  Donald.
