Re: [s-d] let's call them bdays and bweeks and so on 2

[shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx]

I've just discovered this.  I agree, it's non-perfect.

Could we set the reply-to for business to the discussion list?

On 11/22/06, Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This does make sense, except that when a player replies to a message
> on -business, they may or may not be doing business. When the reply-
> to for -business was -business, we frequently got nonbusiness on the
> list, because players would just hit "reply". As it stands right now,
> the reply-to for -business is -discuss, which prevents that, but
> which sometimes means that a player meaning to post to -business
> accidentally sends to -discuss. One method of combating this was to
> allow a Minister in charge of tracking something to recognize
> relevant action that were sent to the wrong forum; e would be
> required to notify the business forum that e was doing this.
>
> Or we could just change the reply-to so that -business replies to
> itself by default, and we could live with the inevitable scraps of
> discussion on -business.
>
> --
> Wonko
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Andy Jones wrote:
>
> > Actually, I'd vote against that.
> >
> > I want to see actual game stuff on business; idle chat on discussions.
> >  Makes perfect sense to me.  Sorry.
> >
> > On 11/22/06, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Antonio <antonio.dolcetta@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> [[arrgh, i hate the distinction between discuss and business, has
> >>> anyone thought of a way to get rid of the distinction ?]]
> >>
> >> In the past, we had a rule that allowed a minister (when we had
> >> ministers) to recognize an action taken on a Discussion forum if done
> >> within a certain amount of time. See the second paragraph of rule
> >> 1-3/5 on Wonko's archive of our prior ruleset at
> >> <http://www.nomic.net/~wonko/current_ruleset.txt>.
> >> Presumably, something similar could be made with me being the
> >> Administrator recognizing actions. Although, right now there's no
> >> definition of "recognizing" and I'm just the one who's reponsible for
> >> making sure players know about the state of the game, so it may be a
> >> bit more complicated to put it in.
> >>
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