A question of ettiquete and focus

1) Ettiquette point: 
A number of us recieve the digest version of the 
list. This is made much more compact and faster 
to traverse and parse in the event that people 
replying to posts make a point to excerpt 
portions of the post that aren't required. An 
example would be someone replying to a long 
post with a two line reply which does not relate 
to the post or which only needs a part of the 
original reply to make sense. Please spend the 
time to do this as some of us are still not on 
broadband and others get the digest. There are 
no penalties for failing to comply, but it is a nice 
gesture.

2) Focus:
There seem to be a number of "where will 
country X be?" discussion going on here (and 
one oddly OT discussion on Rome, which 
although fascinating is hardly GZG related). It 
might strike some as the ultimate irony for me to 
be the one bringing this up, but the density of 
these discussions and the volume of posting has 
been high. It seems to me most of the 
discussion of the GZG timeline should more 
properly be taken to the future history 
discussion list (I believe this is the gzgpedia list 
if I'm not mistaken). Jerry or someone should 
post the subscription address. Said list was 
designed for just this kind of discussion, thus 
freeing up the main GZG list for further 
discussions on game mechanics, rules 
suggestions, vehicle designs, AARs and 
scenarios, etc. 

Thank you for your time. 

Oh, and one last thing: This is an international 
list. Whereas I'm not for the restriction of free 
speech (ie you _can_ say whatever you want), it 
might be polite to at least keep in mind what a 
varied audience the list has, from younger folks 
on up, some of whom might have different 
thresholds for being offended and who come 
from a wide ethnic and national background. If 
we'd all just keep that in mind when bashing 
other nationalities or ethnicities, or when just 
generally expressing ourselves, I'm sure we 
could communicate the same amount of 
information without anyone getting hurt feelings 
or being steamed up by someone else's 
comments. I'll even let people continue to poke 
fun at the Scots and the Kiwis... (you'd have to 
have been on the test list to appreciate this 
one...)

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