From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: the stranger will be missed
Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:45:46 -0800 (PST)

According to Robert Rodriguez:

> out of these past comments I believe is what >>GK<< was refereing to as
> far as the list not being the same, I half tend to agree with him but
> it's just some of the things you guys do. They just seem to IRK" the
> hell out of us VETs, I mean the guys that have been with the list from
> the jump to about 4-5 months after... a bunch of you have this thing
> for killing the excitement on the list, not to down you guys or nothing,
> but this thing with MAXIM, took toooo long. And some of us, sitting on
> the sidelines being tuesday morning quarterbacks just sat back and
> watched.

Those of us who have been on the list long enough to have some familiarity with
the Maxim troubles seem to be in agreement that Maxim was due for a massive
humbling, but that it would not be plausible for it to happen all at once. If
you were impatient in the interim, you could have done some other plot in the
meanwhile.

> Now, mind you, I'm not trying to say I'm an expert and that I know
> exactly how the list should run, but I do know that this isn't what the
> GODS at MANKATO intended.

Who?

> You guys restrict the imagination

This is an important issue. What this list is about is consensus-based
reality, which demands concessions from all its members to reach an agreeable
verion of how the world works. A lot of the debates that have gone on on that
theme have been abuot realism; such things as the T/D stamp alteration, the
hiding of the signal path, and so forth are examples. This list is supposed to
foster creativity, but at least I am a firm believer in _consistency_ first,
and creativity erected on top of that.

> Yall all trying to turn this into AOL, and you don't know how frustrating
> this is.

Could you give specific examples of what you're complaining about?
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