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Message no. 1
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: newbie posting
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:53:53 -0500
Sorry if I'm posting out of turn, but I'm a bit new at this mail list
thing, although I've been online for about two years. Is this just a
general discussion list for topics like rules clarification, commentary,
etc.? If so, I'd just like to ask if there's anyone in the Orlando area
who might be looking for another player in their campaign. I'm a bit
rusty (It's been a while) but I'm looking forward to playing again.
Contact me at: mailto:Breakdown@*****.net.
Message no. 2
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:51:10 EST
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:53:53 -0500 Shawn Baumgartner
<Breakdown@*****.NET> writes:
>Sorry if I'm posting out of turn, but I'm a bit new at this mail list
>thing, although I've been online for about two years. Is this just a
>general discussion list for topics like rules clarification,
>commentary,
>etc.? If so, I'd just like to ask if there's anyone in the Orlando
>area
>who might be looking for another player in their campaign. I'm a bit
>rusty (It's been a while) but I'm looking forward to playing again.
>Contact me at: mailto:Breakdown@*****.net.
>
Actually, I don't think that you can post out of turn...But, yeah, this
is where you ask about rules clarification, general conversation, reviews
and like about Shadowrun, FASA's cyperpunk/fantasy RPG...

So, welcome to ShadowRN!

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let him prepare for war. lobo1@****.com
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Message no. 3
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:57:20 -0500
Thanx! Although as much as I've mouthed off in the short time I've been
here, I'd have gotten lynched if I was out of turn! <grin> I do miss the
old Shadowland, though, since this bloody WebTV won't give me friggin'
Java so I can access the new one!

Say what you will, how you will, when you will. Free speech is a right, not a privelege.
Message no. 4
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:16:01 EST
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET> writes:
>Sorry if I'm posting out of turn, but I'm a bit new at this mail list

Hi! AFAIK There really isn't any such thing as "posting out of turn"
(unless you mention a certain method of making spells permanent and it's
relation to astral space, or a certain tree-tossing mammal) - but then I
haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)

>thing, although I've been online for about two years. Is this just a
>general discussion list for topics like rules clarification, commentary,
etc.?

Yup pretty much. Rules clarification, debate and flat out arguments.
Commentary (sometimes coherent and usefull - OK, _mostly_ coherent and
usefull). Product Review. Pick the local FASA representatives brain
sessions (Line Developer Mike Mulvihill is a member). General discussion
of assorted SR (and loosly SR, or sometimes not-even-remotely-SR) topics.
Basic sounding-board service where you can post something you thought up
and see how several dozen SR players across the globe dissect (vivisect?)
it. In a nut shell, anything you can imagine a room full of SR players
(and gamers in general) talking about. And on that last point, just as
your average gaming session has ebbs and flows in the players'
attention....so do the topics on ShadowRN.

> If so, I'd just like to ask if there's anyone in the Orlando area
>who might be looking for another player in their campaign. I'm a bit
>rusty (It's been a while) but I'm looking forward to playing again.
>Contact me at: mailto:Breakdown@*****.net.
^^^^^*


Good luck. (no sarcasm)

~Tim (Orlando is just a bit too long of a drive from California...)

*That's the first one of those _I've_ seen.... How do you like it?
Message no. 5
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:42:02 +0000
|
|Sorry if I'm posting out of turn, but I'm a bit new at this mail list
|thing, although I've been online for about two years. Is this just a
|general discussion list for topics like rules clarification, commentary,
|etc.?

Yep.... That's the one....

|If so, I'd just like to ask if there's anyone in the Orlando area
|who might be looking for another player in their campaign. I'm a bit
|rusty (It's been a while) but I'm looking forward to playing again.
|Contact me at: mailto:Breakdown@*****.net.

Not me I'm afraid.....

Englands a bit far away to commute....
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Message no. 6
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:53:53 +0000
|
|On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET> writes:
|>Sorry if I'm posting out of turn, but I'm a bit new at this mail list
|
|Hi! AFAIK There really isn't any such thing as "posting out of turn"
|(unless you mention a certain method of making spells permanent and it's
|relation to astral space, or a certain tree-tossing mammal) - but then I
|haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)

Ahem.... Also, mentioning various TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC flame bait about on-line
charges....

Advertising sex lines.....

General SPAM.....

Make money fast scams....

and BINARIES........

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Message no. 7
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:52:11 +0000
On 17 Feb 97 at 23:16, Tim P Cooper wrote:
[snip]
> - but then I
> haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)
Sascha
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Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:16:29 +0000
|
|On 17 Feb 97 at 23:16, Tim P Cooper wrote:
|[snip]
|> - but then I
|> haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
|Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)

Trooo....

Compared to people like Gurth, even I'm a Newbie.....
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|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 9
From: Mark McLaughlin <mmclaugh@*******.EENG.DCU.IE>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:58:26 -0800
Shawn Baumgartner wrote:
>

Anything at all to do even (and often!) vaguely to do with Shadowrun
RPG.

Mark McL
Message no. 10
From: Mark McLaughlin <mmclaugh@*******.EENG.DCU.IE>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:01:21 -0800
Tim P Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi! AFAIK There really isn't any such thing as "posting out of turn"
> (unless you mention a certain method of making spells permanent and it's....

Or of course if you intend to rant incessantly about Wo*dch*cks...

Mark McL
(thats NOT!! a hint.)
Message no. 11
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:07:33 -0800
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Sascha Pabst wrote:

> On 17 Feb 97 at 23:16, Tim P Cooper wrote:
> [snip]
> > - but then I
> > haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
> Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)

Yeah, but he's still been on longer than I have.

~Tim (who distincly remembers Bull being on when he got here)
Message no. 12
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:51:08 -0500
At 01:52 PM 2/18/97 +0000, Sascha Pabst wrote these timeless words:
>On 17 Feb 97 at 23:16, Tim P Cooper wrote:
>[snip]
>> - but then I
>> haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
>Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)
>
That's right...

I've been been here for only 6 months or so...:)

And yeah, I'm loud at times...

I hope that not (always) a bad thing...:):):)

Bull
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Now the Fearless Leader of the New Star Wars Mailing List!

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-Kom, "Outlanders"
Message no. 13
From: Dvixen <dvixen@********.COM>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:37:39 -0800
> >[snip]
> >> - but then I
> >> haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
> >
> >Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)
> >
> That's right...
> I've been been here for only 6 months or so...:)

Barely off of your training keyboard! I think I can count on one hand the
regular posters that have been here longer than me, and Bull ain't one of
them. Not by a couple of years.

> And yeah, I'm loud at times...

For every lurker... There's someone with a new keyboard, and far too much
time to use it...

> I hope that not (always) a bad thing...:):):)

Only when I find myself downloading 250+ mails from the list in less than
24 hours. And so far, nearly half have been OT...

<bitch mode>

While helping the newbies is all fine and great, this is another thing
that could be taken off list. How many of us need to read every hint and
helping post to get each and every newbie poster in shape? *sigh* This
cycle happens at least twice a month, and more and more often lately...
I'm spending more time replying to OT threads, in the form of bitching
that they are there, thus adding to the crap...

(And yes, I'm in another of my moods. I missed being hit by some f***ing
idiot tonight by maybe half an inch. (a centimetre, for those
metric-types) I have a bruised wrist (my hand hit the car when I dodged)
and pulled muscles from dodging) Add that to the idiot customers at work,
and now the OT spam... One might be able to imagine why I'm so easily
annoyable)

</bitch mode>

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Dvixen dvixen@********.com
"And I thought First Ones were rare." - Ivanova - Babylon 5
The opinions expressed are those of the myriad voices in my head
Message no. 14
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:55:09 +0100
Bull said on 16:51/18 Feb 97...

> I've been been here for only 6 months or so...:)

Definitely a newbie :)

> And yeah, I'm loud at times...
>
> I hope that not (always) a bad thing...:):):)

Not anymore, though remember that when you first joined, the number of OT
posts went through the roof :)

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Message no. 15
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: newbie posting
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:54:30 EST
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:07:33 -0800 Tim Cooper
<tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU> writes:
>On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Sascha Pabst wrote:
>
>> On 17 Feb 97 at 23:16, Tim P Cooper wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > - but then I
>> > haven't been on as long as...oh say someone like...Bull. :)
>> Hey... Bull's a newbie! (Although a very loud one :-)
>
>Yeah, but he's still been on longer than I have.
>
:) And I think I've been here a little bit longer than Bull:) Since
August 11:)

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-Canthros
If any man wishes peace, canthros1@***.com
let him prepare for war. lobo1@****.com
--Roman proverb
http://members.aol.com/canthros1/

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