From - Sun Sep 27 10:43:57 1998
From: Ragnar Fyri <ragnar.fyri@daf.no>
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 16:39:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Frequently asked but rarely answered questions and an UPDATE

'Twas the night before 26-Sep-98, and all through the net,
not a creature was stirring, except for Talbain@ix.netcom.com,
who whispered ominously:

>This is a neat idea.  Maybe it's just the mayor in me talking, but why
*can't*
>we give the guests 
>something special?

Yeah, give'em the keys to the city! ;)

>----- Zombie pages -----

>Why shouldn't puppets be allowed to page?  What if I need to contact my cubs
>or vice versa?  My 
>cubs are puppets and should not be discriminated against soley because of
>this. :)

I hope that was an IC comment because OOC I can't see *any* need for paging
my own puppets. About as useful as talking to my alt...
Anyway you can't page puppets. Both they and players can page, but only
players can receive...

>    the mailing list.  I've seen it said
>that the main problem 
>is that furs don't know about it, not that they don't want to be on it.

Just got an idea. Something between constant nagging and a single message
noone (?) reads could be the answer. On TF&F they have (or had and will
have) this puppet (orwhatever it is) called Inspector Gadget that wanders
about and gives random advice to anyone it meets. A slighty more advanced
one could check if people it meets are set mailing_list:yes and whisper a
reminder if they're not. (People who don't want to be on the list could
set mailing_list:no) It would keep track of who it has pestered already
so they wouldn't be nagged more than once a day or once each logon. Oh, and
it should check if they are idle and maybe afk!
Well that's an idea for an IC solution. Maybe use some psychology and make
it look like a sad little waif who's crying because there are so few people
on the list... ;)

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