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Message no. 1
From: James Dening james@************.force9.co.uk
Subject: Cast listing.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:54:41 -0000
Right, I offered to do this sometime ago, and with

a) The resurgence of interest in S-tk
b) The new host being in the process of going up
c) Me having to debug a *really* *REALLY* boring bit of code....

I'd like to get on with it.

The general plan, which seemed to have a vaguely supportive consensus
behind it was to:

Have two lists - a 'live' list and, for now, a 'MIA' list - anyone who's appeared
in the archives over the last year goes automatically into the live list. Anyone
else gets an email from me asking if they still want the char. Chars with a
background go into the MIA list, and can be restored to the live list if
requested. Obvious dross ("Name: Munchkin. Background: Head of Fuchi IntSec.
Weapon: PAC with milspec laser option. by someone@***.com") may be, er,
lost in the process. In six months, or a year or whatever, the MIA list is deleted.

The live list, or, the list as it will become, can of course be added to by everyone...

Comments?

And, assuming all is well with this, Mark, could I have a copy of the DB?

Cheers,

James.
Message no. 2
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: Cast Listing
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 05:34:27 -0700
At 15:00 3/10/00 -0500, plotd-admin@*********.com wrote:

So I go to DIGEST after not responding to a post for a few weeks, and then
there's one I want to respond to. :P (Any direct comments, please CC them
to me so I can answer in a timely fashion.)

>From: James Dening <james@************.force9.co.uk>

>Have two lists - a 'live' list and, for now, a 'MIA' list - anyone who's
>appeared
>in the archives over the last year goes automatically into the live list.
>Anyone
>else gets an email from me asking if they still want the char. Chars with a
>background go into the MIA list, and can be restored to the live list if
>requested. Obvious dross ("Name: Munchkin. Background: Head of Fuchi IntSec.
>Weapon: PAC with milspec laser option. by someone@***.com") may be, er,
>lost in the process. In six months, or a year or whatever, the MIA list is
>deleted.

I don't like the idea of the MIA list being deleted, per se. I'd prefer
"Archived". Somebody might find it useful some day (Like when reading old
logs, for NPC ideas, to find a long dead character to mention for some
reason or another, etc..)

Active, MIA, Archived would work for me. The idea of throwing away data
scares me. :)

Adam
< http://shadowrun.html.com/tss / adamj@*********.html.com / UIN 2350330>
Message no. 3
From: James Dening james@************.force9.co.uk
Subject: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:29:48 -0000
On Saturday, March 11, 2000 12:34 PM, Adam J [SMTP:adamj@*********.html.com] wrote:
>
> >Have two lists - a 'live' list and, for now, a 'MIA' list - anyone who's
> >appeared
> >in the archives over the last year goes automatically into the live list.
> >Anyone
> >else gets an email from me asking if they still want the char. Chars with a
> >background go into the MIA list, and can be restored to the live list if
> >requested. Obvious dross ("Name: Munchkin. Background: Head of Fuchi
IntSec.
> >Weapon: PAC with milspec laser option. by someone@***.com") may be, er,
> >lost in the process. In six months, or a year or whatever, the MIA list is
> >deleted.
>
> I don't like the idea of the MIA list being deleted, per se. I'd prefer
> "Archived". Somebody might find it useful some day (Like when reading old
> logs, for NPC ideas, to find a long dead character to mention for some
> reason or another, etc..)
>
> Active, MIA, Archived would work for me. The idea of throwing away data
> scares me. :)

OK, Paolo expressed this concern too.....How about then, having a MIA list, but simply
never delete it.....

Any further comments/objections?

James.
Message no. 4
From: Brian Rogers <rogers@****.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:19:52 -0500
Wanted to politely ask where the cast listing was in its creation process?

If you cant get it done, please pass it off to me and I will
allocate time to getting something at least passable out to the list.
Message no. 5
From: Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca>
Subject: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 14:25:25 EST
About 98.99% of the characters in the cast listing seem to be dormant...
Maybe they could be put in a different file?
Message no. 6
From: "Mark Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:44:25 -0500
> About 98.99% of the characters in the cast listing seem to be dormant...
> Maybe they could be put in a different file?

That's possible. It would require every TK member to send me a list
of currently active characters that they control. (There are ~380
characters in the cast list, so I don't really want to go through
them all if there is a better way..)

What does everyone else think about seperating the cast list? I'm
pretty indifferent to it, really...

-Mark
Message no. 7
From: ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:26:04 -0700 (MST)
Well, I do think it needs some severe updating, personally, but as I'm
going to send totally revamped character descriptions about my current,
and my now deceased characters, to Mark anyway, that option seems
reasonable to me.

Brian
Message no. 8
From: JOHN SPAIN <93135653@****.dcu.ie>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 21:37:40 +0000 (GMT)
Heh. Yeah. Maybe some updating could be done if this is something we are
going to receive monthly, like??

I personally have some write-ups to include in it. I was surpried Goku got
in at all... Need to add, lessee... Marksanspensah, Brocken Bone, Enrique
Vargas (yup, him), Disbeliever and Gutsys, though I'll probably just do
one or two...

Just wade in wih an ediorial monoknife and slash away ;)

-J.S.
Message no. 9
From: NIGHTFOX <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:28:54 -0700 (MST)
>Well, I do think it needs some severe updating, personally, but as I'm
>going to send totally revamped character descriptions about my current,
>and my now deceased characters, to Mark anyway, that option seems
>reasonable to me.

Same for mine - they have been updated once (I think) since we created the Cast
list 2 years ago.

The Entry for CRUSH is old - He's now 3.8m and 408 kg (12'7" and 900 lb)
He's one big daddy.

Nightfox
Message no. 10
From: ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:49:35 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, NIGHTFOX wrote:

> He's one big daddy.

Literally. **grin**

Brian
Message no. 11
From: bd042@***.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:10:36 -0800
Since most of these people aren't on the list anymore, wouldn't
it be easiest to check active users against their characters
and put everyone else into a Prime-Runners file?
--Moonwalker (th'B-Team Lives!)
Message no. 12
From: Craigtw1@***.com
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:24:45 -0500
Did anyone else find that the third section of the Cast List was missing
characters? It only contained from Lotus Mage to Otomo, Kaneda(sp?). Only
the first line of Kaneda's entry was there as well.
That's right Stefan, your character got cut up, by at least my mailer...:)
Tom
Message no. 13
From: "Freddy Frypp no more" <JAMES-CUENO@*********.edu>
Subject: Re: Cast Listing
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:52:32 CST
> Since most of these people aren't on the list anymore, wouldn't
> it be easiest to check active users against their characters
> and put everyone else into a Prime-Runners file?
> --Moonwalker (th'B-Team Lives!)

Damn, beat me to it. Count this as a second for that option.

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