Tolerance

> Personally the attachments don't bother me, neither does the FTL thread

I feel compelled to add my forpennorth (British 2 cents) to this:

Personally speaking I like to read mails relating (though not always directly)
to wargaming. What I do not like to read (in volume) is a discussion between
two factions covering subjects which, although starting in game relavant
material, rapidly expands into so much pseudo science (my physics is better
than your physiscs) ramble. Come on guys this is a game after all, who cares
about the real world, we are PLAYING with little spaceships, PRETENDING they
are in space. Surely we do not need to justify what we want to do with some
science babble. If I want to use some super
X-ray laser scanner missile disruptor then as long as my gaming
group/oppponent doesn't mind/likes the idea then who cares if it
does/will
ever exsist. As a bonus if it works then I may post it on the net where I
would expect an amount of 'its too expensive/powerful/try this
modification' type of discussion. I do not feel it is neccesary for a three
week long argument over the net as to the possiblity of this thing or how it
may work, in my mind it just DOES, is that not enough? If folks
want to argue the future/potential physics of things then please do so
but why not mail each other privately.

As far as attatchments go. I thought the nettiquet of attatchments was not to
send them unsolicited. OK so I don't pay for my email time so I have no
problems with them but some folks do, so perhaps it is best not to send them
unless asked to.

Rather than start a flame war over the mailing list, if folks want to flame me
for my opinions then please mail me privately!

> At 09:42 16/09/97 -0500, you wrote:
For what it's worth I think those are pretty good guidelines. Rather than set
any arbitrary limits I like the list to attempt to police itself, which it
does in general quite well. We have the odd flurry, in the way of the AI
debate or the FTL one, but even then they are within the general purview and
may be useful to some. But as I have had private email from a couple of people
who were having problems with the volume of mail these two generated, I would
ask people in future to attempt to at least keep it game relevant. I stayed
out of the AI debate but I was as guilty as anyone in the FTL one, so this
goes for me too I suppose. As a rule of thumb from now on, I would ask people
to consider the mail they are sending and if they cannot see how what they are
talking about could be interpreted in a game setting, then think twice about
posting.

As to binaries, or even text encosings of binaries, in general I'm against
them. If you have something you want to distribute, post that you have it and
ask people to request you send it to them. If you post a binary to the list
even with the best will in the world you will end up angering as many people
as you help.

                        TTFN
                                Jon

I agree!

David Best

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