Re: New IF ships

Um...

While I agree with you completely on what was volunteered for, might I
point out that it wasn't mean that was volunteered, or volunteering
(Thank
you, I have enough military friends to know better than to volunteer),
rather David Griffon...

And my comment was, you really didn't know what you were getting us into
by volunteering him for that.

Laserlight wrote:

> > >You have just volunteered for the job. Good luck :-)
> >
> > Oh dear god, you know not what you say!
>
> Let's define what you (and not we) have volunteered for:
>
> a. note all rule application questions
> b. keeping track of the discussions (what, about 50-75 e-mails a day?
> not counting the test list)
> c. keeping track of the Lists' conclusions, if any, and unanimity of
> decisions, again if any
> d. collating and editing questions for clarity
> e. presenting them to Jon (and perhaps back to the List)
> f. waiting while Jon gets out of a sculting mood and into a Ruling
> Arbitratioin mood
> g. incurring the wrath of those listers who'd rather get their Islamic
> Fed ships **now**, rather than have you interrupt Jon and perhaps
> break his sculpting mood (okay, some of the listers would rather see
> Bugs Don't Surf, or FB3, or FT3, or FMASk, or DS3--but I'm interested
> in the Islamic Fed ships, and I can make a business trip to whatever
> city you live in--my accounting manager was just telling me last week
> that I need to spend $2000/month on travel)
> h. nailing down Jon's answer (ie not taking "well, do it any way you
> like, it's your game" for an answer)
> i. collating, formatting and posting the replies
> j. receiving the List's response to the posting and making any
> corrections needed (ie cycle a-i again)
> k. maintain and move the web site as needed
>
> --------- or -----------
>
>  you can just take as gospel Jon's dictum: "Play the game, not the
> rules."