From alt.pub.dragons-inn Mon Nov 14 09:55:30 1994 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:7885 Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!jac.zko.dec.com!leggy.zk3.dec.com!orb!not-for-mail From: hutch@agora.rdrop.com (Steve Hutchison) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: [Admin] - CIA - Sigh...Gunpowder Date: 12 Nov 1994 18:26:42 -0000 Organization: Duchy of Wabesylvan Obspauk Lines: 42 Sender: news@Orb.Nashua.NH.US Message-ID: References: <3a0fjq$s82@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> In-Reply-To: <3a0fjq$s82@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> from "Dave" at Nov 11, 94 07:10:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dave writes ... +Since this thread started, an amazing volume of critical comments +have been directed at it; this has been particularly surprising +insofar as the FAQ specifically states a policy of non-interference. Non-interference means, nobody can join a thread without invitation once it's closed by the thread controllers. CIA has not really been "closed" by that measure since there is no "thread controller" per se. Non-interference also means, nobody will start posting into the story thread with segments that wreck the flow of the story. That means, for instance, that I won't post a story where the high priest comes and zot's the blasphemer dragon into lizard cutlets, nor will I post a story where the king's spies poison the gruel that Jones is eating. Nor will I post a story where the king's advisers kill him in his sleep, taking over the government before the CIA folks can do the job. It doesn't mean I won't comment in email or in public posts about the story. Nobody who posts to the group is going to get away without some comment. Most people get positive comments. You might want to think about why you're getting negative comments, if that's all you're getting. One hint though -- people don't generally cheer for the bad guy, and that's what you've set yourselves up as. +a). We are in a largely undeveloped and unexplored portion of the +overall fantasy world. Hence, our actions do not clash with, nor +do they modify or eliminate, existing development by other or prior +posters. Right. Exactly. We appreciate it. +b). As numerous other posters have done and are doing, we are in +a parallel (but not equivalent) universe; thus, while the places +and people may appear to be the same as in Generica, this is not, +technically speaking, Generica. Hence, if any such rules against +gunpowder and the use thereof are existent, they are rendered null, +void, and moot via this device. If you've gone off-nexus you should make that clearer. We know you aren't in Generica the city.