From:	NeoJudas neojudas@******************.com
Subject:	Where is everybody?
Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:42:59 -0500

From: "Adam J" <adamj@*********.com>
Subject: Re: Where is everybody?


> Well, aside from the night that Mark accidentally screwed up a router at
> HTML.com and forgot that it was the one that dumpshock.com uses... :-)

Sounds familiar somehow... are you sure Mark isn't working subversively with
the same company I work for... ;-P

> I think the list is just quiet because there hasn't been a lot of new
> Shadowrun books out lately, there hasn't been any really new Shadowrun
> books/material out for a longer time, except sporadic releases (usually of
> the type that don't get discussed much - Corp Punishement being an
> adventure didn't warrant much discussion), and everyone has talked and
> talked about YotC for over a year now, so everyone is a bit sick of
talking
> about it and not having it yet. <g>

Two years now, and no further comment.

> I suspect that once the FASA schedule gets back onto track, which Mike
> hopes to do for 2001, the list traffic will once again pick up
accordingly.

There could be several other things. With the current development schedule
that is in place... there have been a number of increasing cases of
"Burnout" coming from/originating within the ranks of the Playtesters and
Freelancers. And with that group (usually a fairly enthusiastic/vocal
crowd) growing increasingly silent, it does not help to generate the
enthusiasm others can bounce/brainstorm off of.

The list has been known to go into "regen mode" or "sleep mode" now
periodically, and I'm fairly certain things will come back to strength here
soon .. especially with Target: Matrix looming on the near-immediate horizon
(it was in art last week IIRC). For some reason, I'm thinking that one may
generate as much "speculation" and "theory", if not more, than the
previous
two sourcebooks combined... so for the most part I have to agree with Adam
on some of the inclusive reasons for the silence.

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