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My forgetting to announce the new IA, #27, on the ia-related yahoo groups was, if I am to be completely truthful, partly passive agressive. And has already pissed at least one person off enough to make a public comment (and probably others who just haven't made a point of saying aught about it.)
I honestly had been away from the IA (and DW) scene so long that I wasn't aware that many fans have apparently abandoned adwc completely.
But I also realize now that the yahoo groups to me symbolize the shift from lean, mean round-robins, completed on or near time, to tales much more likely to turn into 'the never-ending story'...
I wanted to get away from that; make a fresh start.
At the end of the 90s, switching to egroups, which of course was soon taken over by yahoo, 'seemed like a good idea'.
But I personally don't think now that we need three mailing lists - one just for announcements, one for chapter dissemination (useful), and one for story discussion (potentially useful).
Yes, I remember the argument against increasing idle chat which was what prompted the proliferation of lists. But has it really been that big an issue since then?
Perhaps it has. I have been away.
I just...too many yahoo groups on my list make me squidgey. Especially when they have hardly any traffic. At that point, why keep them? It's just Clutter. Which was why, when I went on Modding hiatus, I quit the groups and essentially forgot about them.
I actually intended just to e-mail the chapters to the writer's list, the way we first started out - anyone not writing who wanted to read them could bloody well go read them on adwc or wait for the web page they'd be archived on - though in a concession to my new LJ participation, I was going to post them, under cut tags, here as well (as I already have posted chapter 1). Obviously I was as yet unaware that usenet is no longer the long-term IA/DW fan's cup o' tea.
Yes, ignoring the IA groups was rude in retrospect - a Mistake.
But I refuse to feel any Guilt for wanting to follow the following rule of thumb: K.I.S.S.!
I'm the Mod. The new story belongs to all 10 of us participating - but it's my rules.
Grrr. Arrgh.
I honestly had been away from the IA (and DW) scene so long that I wasn't aware that many fans have apparently abandoned adwc completely.
But I also realize now that the yahoo groups to me symbolize the shift from lean, mean round-robins, completed on or near time, to tales much more likely to turn into 'the never-ending story'...
I wanted to get away from that; make a fresh start.
At the end of the 90s, switching to egroups, which of course was soon taken over by yahoo, 'seemed like a good idea'.
But I personally don't think now that we need three mailing lists - one just for announcements, one for chapter dissemination (useful), and one for story discussion (potentially useful).
Yes, I remember the argument against increasing idle chat which was what prompted the proliferation of lists. But has it really been that big an issue since then?
Perhaps it has. I have been away.
I just...too many yahoo groups on my list make me squidgey. Especially when they have hardly any traffic. At that point, why keep them? It's just Clutter. Which was why, when I went on Modding hiatus, I quit the groups and essentially forgot about them.
I actually intended just to e-mail the chapters to the writer's list, the way we first started out - anyone not writing who wanted to read them could bloody well go read them on adwc or wait for the web page they'd be archived on - though in a concession to my new LJ participation, I was going to post them, under cut tags, here as well (as I already have posted chapter 1). Obviously I was as yet unaware that usenet is no longer the long-term IA/DW fan's cup o' tea.
Yes, ignoring the IA groups was rude in retrospect - a Mistake.
But I refuse to feel any Guilt for wanting to follow the following rule of thumb: K.I.S.S.!
I'm the Mod. The new story belongs to all 10 of us participating - but it's my rules.
Grrr. Arrgh.
.