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Message no. 1
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:25:48 -0700
Calling all Shadowrun writers!

The 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest is now underway.
This year there are *two* contests, along with a whole
heap o' prizes waiting to be won! This year's prizes include:

- A copy of "Wolf and Raven" signed by Mike Stackpole
- Original art by Fred Hooper (2 of them)
- A full set of this year's Gen Con premium Shadowrun
laminated badges (7 in all)
- 5 of the 7 2057 Election badges
- A copy of "Matrix" signed by Mike Mulvihill, Fred Hooper,
and Steve Kenson

Bop on by the Magespace for full details. The URL's in
the .sig. Deadline for entries is October 31.

Thanks, and good luck to all who enter!
--Rat

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Message no. 2
From: Iridios iridios@********.net
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:38:46 -0400
Rat wrote:

> Bop on by the Magespace for full details.

I'm just curious, but why require contestants to get a hotmail
account? For the ease of filtering, or is there some other reason.

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Message no. 3
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:44:25 -0700
Iridios wrote:


> Rat wrote:
>
> > Bop on by the Magespace for full details.
>
> I'm just curious, but why require contestants to get a hotmail
> account? For the ease of filtering, or is there some other reason.
>
> --
> Iridios
> --


It doesn't have to be Hotmail (that's just the example). I just
want the entries to be completely anonymous, hence the funky
address request.

--Rat
Message no. 4
From: Snake Eyes snake.eyes@***.net
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:26:13 -0700
At 09:44 PM 8/16/00 -0700, Rat wrote:

>It doesn't have to be Hotmail (that's just the example). I just want the
>entries to be completely anonymous, hence the funky address request.
>
>--Rat

That being the case, then I highly recommend SSMail
<http://www.ssmail.com>;. Streaming voice mail and voice recognition
(speech-to-text) over the Internet. Not bad for a free e-mail service, and
it beats the crap out of Hotmail any day.

~ Snake Eyes
Message no. 5
From: Bull bull@***********.com
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:32:41 -0400
At 02:50 AM 8/17/00 +0000, naughty@********.com.au wrote:
>
>Main reason I can see is that Rat is trying to be as unbiased
>as possible. If he recognises the email address it is from, he
>then becomes less impartial. This way each story is ONLY judged
>on it's merits, and not "Joe Bloggs normally writes great
>stories..."
>
Actually, after meeting Rat at GC this year... Rat's a SHE :]

<chuckle>

Bull

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Message no. 6
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
> At 02:50 AM 8/17/00 +0000, naughty@********.com.au
wrote:
> >Main reason I can see is that Rat is trying to be
as unbiased as possible. If he recognises the email
address it is from, he then becomes less impartial.
This way each story is ONLY judged on it's merits, and
not "Joe Bloggs normally writes great stories..."
> >
> Actually, after meeting Rat at GC this year... Rat's
a SHE :]
> <chuckle>
> Bull

*Doc' howls with laughter*

Damn it, Jon, you're on the SR Writer's Forum - you
should know that.

And yes, that's exactly why Rat does that. Previously,
she just asked that anyone she knew who was submitting
a story create a "fake" email address to send from.
After the past few contests, she'd probably knew that
any writers who seemed to be from Redneckville, or had
once starred in Star Wars was actually me. :) So she's
standardised now.

Smart cookie. Only took her four contests to figure
that one out...;)

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

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Message no. 7
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Announcing the 3rd Annual Magespace Short Story Contest
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
> And yes, that's exactly why Rat does that.
Previously, she just asked that anyone she knew who
was submitting a story create a "fake" email address
to send from. After the past few contests, she'd
probably knew that any writers who seemed to be from
Redneckville, or had once starred in Star Wars was
actually me. :) So she's standardised now.
> Doc'

Lordy! Check the grammar! Wtf happened to me???

*Doc' commits seppuku to atone to the gods of writing...*

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

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