From: rsnyder@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Bob Snyder)
Subject: Re: RFD:  rec.games.mud.{tiny,diku,announce}
Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs, Moorestown, NJ
	<12454@tamsun.tamu.edu> <JZp+Mw_@engin.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:48:15 GMT

>>>>> In article <JZp+Mw_@engin.umich.edu>, sander@engin.umich.edu
>>>>> (Scott D Anderson) writes:

Scott> And now, to YAP (yet another proposal :)

Scott> As Roger stated above, the only real consensus seems to be that we
Scott> need rgm.announce... i am all for that...

Scott> rgm.social for social discussions which affect *all* mud types
Scott> (VR, VR rape, why Bruce sucks, why FurryMUCK sucks, why
Scott> everything sucks, general BS discussions, etc, etc, etc ad
Scott> nauseum)

Scott> rgm.adventure for rpg discussions that are generally applicable
Scott> (stat systems, player killing discussions, etc.) I suspect that
Scott> this group would not pass a CFV though, as there doesn't seem
Scott> to be much of this sort of traffic currently. I think that
Scott> there will be more traffic of this sort in the future as more
Scott> muds (like GodNet) cross the rpg/social boundaries. Maybe this
Scott> should wait another 6 months for the next rgm split brouhaha :)

These two are fine, as long as the following are also done, so that
there are places for each server type to use (I was dead set against
lumping every "adventure" server under rgm.adventure, since we
sometimes don't get along as well as the tiny/social/unadventuring
crews.  I live in both worlds, so.....

Scott> rgm.tiny  for mating flights, mush/moo/tiny/whatever code requests, etc.
Scott>           although, those almost look like announcements to me

I think (hope) that more would come out of this group than just
announcements.  In any case, they really wouldn't be of a general
enough nature to fall under rgm.announce

Scott> rgm.diku  for diku-only discussions

Scott> rgm.admin for registration concerns, network menaces, more rgm split
Scott>           discussions, NMA, What To Do About mud.idiots, etc.

I like the name, but I would think that it would be a place for mud
administrator to talk about administrative problems (Idgitsfrom PSU
sending mail to SysAdmins, how many resourses a mud takes up, etc)
NMA would belong in a more general group, and so would further rgm
splits...

Scott> hmmm... this doesnt seem to leave much room for rgm itself... perhaps
Scott> rgm == rgm.social (as i have defined it, not as a tiny only group).

I would suggest that we get rid off rec.games.mud and put in a
rec.games.mud.misc.  The more I think about it, the more it seems to
make sense, since it would encourage people to post to the correct
group, and it does need to exist (there are topics we haven't covered
because they don't fit into neat little groups...

So a summury of my suggested changes to your YAP. :)

rec.games.mud.announce (moderated)
rec.games.mud.social -for discussion of social aspects of all muds
rec.games.mud.adventure -for discussion of adventuring aspects of all muds
rec.games.mud.admin -for discussion on admistering a mud
rec.games.mud.lp -already exists
rec.games.mud.tiny
rec.games.mud.diku
rec.games.mud.misc -for general discussion not appropriate to any one group
rmgroup rec.games.mud

Comments?
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