The last thing I wanted to do was to send mail to this group, but things have gotten out of hand. I used to be able to drag all my CIRCLE message to a folder to save for future use, now I find I'm dragging all of them to the wastebasket. Has anyone considered making this list moderated. If not, please do consider, and forward me the information on how to sign up and remove myself from this incessant banter I am greeted with every morning. If you hate reading long email, as I do delete this now. I plan to question copyright laws, address etiquette and inform Mr. Argus of his inappropriateness. In order to give this message some substance before I get into any concerns, does anyone have any information on copyright laws when it comes to writing areas. I want to write several areas, actually an entire mudworld based on an already existing novel set, and am curious as to what others have run into. I've talked to the Arctic Mud people and they say they've had no problems. (Arctic is based on the Dragonlance world from TSR). To Alex: Is there perhaps a way to add to the sig file that you append to all Circle messages the number of people that will receive that message? I think some people don't realize how many "listeners" are out there. Now to everyone: I suggest the next time you send a message to this group, or any other for that matter that you read over your message several times and ask yourself a few questions, "Am I really saying what I want to say here? Is this the image I want to portray to the myriad of people that will receive this? Do I really need to send this to everyone on the list? Will a good majority benefit from my sending this message? Or should I just send it to the two or three people who asked for it." Maybe this is bordering on etiquette, but just from personal experience here are few things everyone can do to minimize the conflict that can erupt in these mailing lists. 1) Don't reply to every single message immediately. Read all of your mail first, then send one single message that covers any items that you wish to discuss. 2) Remove ALL parts of a "reply" message that are irrelevant, (especially these incessant signatures) or remove it all completely and just reference the author and date. It's very likely that we all have the same message about 6 messages up in our list, and know exactly what we're talking about. If you don't, sorry, you miss out this time. To Argus, or whatever your name is: I cannot believe you would even think of sending this message to such a mailing list as the one to which we subscribe. Please realize that it was the list owner himself who requested that the lazy typing desist. A few others saw fit to express their concern as well, to make it painfully obvious to this "Frag" individual that his typing style was not appropriate for this mailing list. I have never in my entire life seen any foreign individual use numbers to signify words when using our English language. Using 1 or one, is one thing, but using ne1 for anyone, is absolutely ridiculous. You belittle foreigners a great deal by saying its ok for them to type like that -- foreigners do not and would not type like that. Only the type of person that lazy America could produce would even dream up this 'warez' speak as someone termed it. Anyone who can type properly knows that it takes no time to type anyone as compared to ne1. I think you went way to far in assuming that people who are requesting a person type out "anyone" are both racially and religiously biased, and then naming them Hitlers. Please, in the future, never speak on behalf of the American population, you have no right, nor does anyone. Your writing is completely off base and inappropriate. I pray that you are not in our Armed Forces, for I would not want to be protected by such an ignorant individual. You do a great disservice by representing yourself as such. To Frag: In all seriousness, you've got some very good ideas and inputs to this list, and I do admit to trudging through your previous writings. Realize that you're sending these messages to be read by others, and what benefit is there to you typing it faster, if we have to take two or three times the time to read it. Remember your 'customer' on the other end. Sincerely, Andrew McDonald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Andrew W. McDonald Xerox Xerox Square, USCO Headquarters Andrew_McDonald@MC.XEROX.COM Rochester, NY +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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