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From: neon@*******.EDU
Subject: Re: RAWRGH!
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:57:36 +0000
> Established sounds fine, doesn't it...? Well, yeah. But _how_ to do things -
> that was compiled by people of IF. Find problems - that also was done, and
> mostly solved, by the people of IF. (Hm - now how do I get a spirit in here...
> will find a way) The FAQ gives just _rough_ ideas how things _might_ be done,
> re-read what pete comiled to see what would be better, and HELP getting a GOOD
> guideline together.

I'm talking about breaking established views by having no explination
for how a spirit could have something like a third person narration.
Funny, no one elses seems to be having to many problems. Of course,
it might be because they decided to discuss things on plotd first...

> Till then, stop your sarcasm,
No. In fact, the more I here people in IF1 talk about how hard it is
to do things, and how hard life for them is, the more it will
probably continue.

> or define _to_me_ how to include videos. Texts.
> Descriptions. Anyone on here has his/her own way to do, most often not even
> continious within a single character's posts...

Funny, I thought you guys knew something about SR. You sure seemed
to. Did you miss the bit on "+++++include video" etc.?

> We didn't whine. We did work, and compile Pete's Newcomer's Guide. What have
> you done but whining?

You mean, other than help you guys? Perhaps I shouldn't have. No
one helped me, and I didn't screw up my postings nearly as many times
as you guys have. Either then, or now. And now, when someone comes
on, or the Newcomers Guide is posted, all I hear you say is "this is
so newbies won't be treated as harshly as we were." Sure you didn't
bother to read the FAQ, and there's no guarantee that anyone joining
the list will read your newcomers guide, so why is it so much better?

> What are _you_ whining about?

I'm complaining that you IF1'ers seem to believe you're the first
people to ever join this list and get a cold shoulder because you
didn't read the FAQ (and if you came from shadowrn, then you knew
there was one, and if all these people were your friends, why didn't
you tell them?). Seems to me you should admit that you screwed up
when you joined by not following posting guidelines (which are
clearly discussed in the FAQ) to such a degree that it was decided to
give the office of Dread Executor to one person since Mark was to
busy to take care of his other dutys _and_ the job of just making
sure people followed posting guidelines.

Mike Broadwater
"I wrote this song after I got my hair cut; if you feel it
has global implications however, that's just fine."
- Warren Zevon, on his song "Figurine"

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