Re: Tolerance

At 09:42 16/09/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Personally the attachments don't bother me, neither does the FTL
thread
>>(yet), but can't we be a little more tolerant??
>
>I feel compelled to add my forpennorth (British 2 cents) to this:
>Personally speaking I like to read mails relating (though not always
>directly) to wargaming.  What I do not like to read (in volume) is a
>discussion between two factions covering subjects which, although
starting
>in game relavant material, rapidly expands into so much pseudo science
(my
>physics is better than your physiscs) ramble.	Come on guys this is a
game
>after all, who cares about the real world, we are PLAYING with little
>spaceships, PRETENDING they are in space.  Surely we do not need to
justify
>what we want to do with some science babble.  If I want to use some
super
>X-ray laser scanner missile disruptor then as long as my gaming
>group/oppponent doesn't mind/likes the idea then who cares if it
does/will
>ever exsist.  As  a bonus if it works then I may post it on the net
where I
>would expect an amount of 'its too expensive/powerful/try this
>modification' type of discussion.  I do not feel it is neccesary for a
>three week long argument over the net as to the possiblity of this
thing or
>how it may work, in my mind it just DOES, is that not enough ? If folks
>want to argue the future/potential physics of things then please do so
but
>why not mail each other privately.
>
>As far as attatchments go.  I thought the nettiquet of attatchments was
not
>to send them unsolicited.  OK so I don't pay for my email time so I
have no
>problems with them but some folks do, so perhaps it is best not to send
>them unless asked to.
>
>Rather than start a flame war over the mailing list, if folks want to
flame
>me for my opinions then please mail me privately !
>
>Stuart.
For what it's worth I think those are pretty good guidelines. Rather
than
set any arbitrary limits I like the list to attempt to police itself,
which
it does in general quite well. We have the odd flurry, in the way of the
AI
debate or the FTL one, but even then they are within the general purview
and may be useful to some. But as I have had private email from a couple
of
people who were having problems with the volume of mail these two
generated, I would ask people in future to attempt to at least keep it
game
relevant. I stayed out of the AI debate but I was as guilty as anyone in
the FTL one, so this goes for me too I suppose. As a rule of thumb from
now
on, I would ask people to consider the mail they are sending and if they
cannot see how what they are talking about could be interpreted in a
game
setting, then think twice about posting.

As to binaries, or even text encosings of binaries, in general I'm
against
them. If you have something you want to distribute, post that you have
it
and ask people to request you send it to them. If you post a binary to
the
list even with the best will in the world you will end up angering as
many
people as you help.

			TTFN
				Jon
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