From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:23:31 -0400
Subject: A question of ettiquete and focus
1) Ettiquette point: A number of us recieve the digest version of the list. This is made much more compact and faster to traverse and parse in the event that people replying to posts make a point to excerpt portions of the post that aren't required. An example would be someone replying to a long post with a two line reply which does not relate to the post or which only needs a part of the original reply to make sense. Please spend the time to do this as some of us are still not on broadband and others get the digest. There are no penalties for failing to comply, but it is a nice gesture. 2) Focus: There seem to be a number of "where will country X be?" discussion going on here (and one oddly OT discussion on Rome, which although fascinating is hardly GZG related). It might strike some as the ultimate irony for me to be the one bringing this up, but the density of these discussions and the volume of posting has been high. It seems to me most of the discussion of the GZG timeline should more properly be taken to the future history discussion list (I believe this is the gzgpedia list if I'm not mistaken). Jerry or someone should post the subscription address. Said list was designed for just this kind of discussion, thus freeing up the main GZG list for further discussions on game mechanics, rules suggestions, vehicle designs, AARs and scenarios, etc. Thank you for your time. Oh, and one last thing: This is an international list. Whereas I'm not for the restriction of free speech (ie you _can_ say whatever you want), it might be polite to at least keep in mind what a varied audience the list has, from younger folks on up, some of whom might have different thresholds for being offended and who come from a wide ethnic and national background. If we'd all just keep that in mind when bashing other nationalities or ethnicities, or when just generally expressing ourselves, I'm sure we could communicate the same amount of information without anyone getting hurt feelings or being steamed up by someone else's comments. I'll even let people continue to poke fun at the Scots and the Kiwis... (you'd have to have been on the test list to appreciate this one...)