From alt.pub.dragons-inn Mon Dec 18 13:27:28 1995 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:8917 Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!usenet From: shane@kjemi.unit.no (Shane Dye) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: [ADMIN] OWNERSHIP and responsibilities, a debate start Date: 18 Dec 1995 10:45:10 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Chem. Eng., NTH Lines: 53 Sender: shane@moses.iok.unit.no Message-ID: <6goht6zowp.fsf@moses.iok.unit.no> References: <4armm0$2qm@news.onramp.net> <4b23v6$2ov@news.onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: moses.iok.unit.no In-reply-to: brudnick@delphi.com's message of Sun, 17 DEC 95 21:14:58 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.4 Rodney Taylor writes the bits preceded by "R>" Bret Rudnick writes the bits preceded by "B>" (If it REALLY matters all of the bits I write are IMHO or whatever it is) I don't see we need any more rules. Not that *I* see that there are REALLY any at the moment (beyond common courtesy). The point of this news group is surely a forum for creative writing. The point is NOT consistancy but writing. A group of people all writing about the same place with NEVER be consistant (individual writers who keep writing about the same universe are not) why should we endeavour to be too consistant when surely that will stop people writing. If there is a glaring inconsitency it can always be explained retrospectively (if anyone thinks it's important). If you need a theives guild to be quite promenant in your story and don't like the organisation/theme of the current one in Generica set your story in another town (tying it into the Inn isn't hard). R> If we get traffic going again, I (as reader) don't want to R> wade through ten posts a week of Admin's. Nor do I wish R> to inflict that on others. :) B> You don't have to read anything you don't want to. Surely the news group exists more for the writers than the readers? R> I know of situations that were NOT civil. This means R> "tradition" was insufficient as a regulator of behavior. R> Time makes such problems worse, and I want to prevent R> that kind of thing again. No amount of rules will prevent this sort of thing. In fact I think the more rules you have the more you have to bicker about! I don't really see a problem here. Anyway that's what I think if anyone cares. -- Shane Dye (Post.Doc.) e-mail: shane@iok.unit.no Department of Managerial Economics and Operations Research NTH, UNIT, Norway (The header may be wrong on some of these points...sorry) "...I turned my wine into water..." - Straightjacket Fits