Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Source Vs. Rule (was... MM on SOTA somesuchcrap)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:04:18 -0800
Gurth wrote:

> <SNIP>
> > And the net is slow, to a degree... if I come in here and ask a question
> > about something from the old books... its a crap shoot if I get an answer...
> > let alone a correct answer. And even if I get an answer, it might come in
> > 2 or 3 days later (I started playing shadowrun in 1989, I got all the
> > books... I still ask questions... and alot of them don't get answered in
> > here at all)
>
> Unfortunately, it's the way the list works these days :( It used to be that
> you asked a question and fifteen different people gave you about ten
> different answers, all of them more or less right. Now, it seems a lot of
> people are losing interest in the list altogether...
>

I've been quiet lately, a fact which makes me wonder sometimes why I'm still on
this list, but I can directly address this remark. For me, I used to try to be the
"Helpy Helperton (tm)" who answered every question. Fine. That worked when I was
checking email 5-10 times a day. Now I check it twice, and it's probably too late
to answer the question, so I get lost in the clutter.
<SNIP>

--
--Strago

All Hail Apathy! Or don't. Whatever. -abortion_engine

SRGC v0.2 !SR1 SR2+ SR3++ h b++ B- UB- IE+ RN+ SRFF W+ sa++ ma++ ad+ m+ (o++ d+)
gm+ M P

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.