[arg_discuss] re: quoting posts

[adam]

despain at quantumcontent.com wrote:

> Speaking of coming back in a month's time to re-read stuff - is this list
> being archived? I think I'd rather it wasn't. I know I can't stop people

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 > being archived? I think I'd rather it wasn't. I know I can't stop people

Continuing as an open (no prior ARG experience required), inclusive (no 
IGDA membership required), group I feel we have the best chance of 
achieving the SIG's aims: "To bring together a wide spectrum of experts 
in the state-of-the-art of the ARG genre, and to facilitate the sharing 
of their knowledge and promotion of ARG's to mainstream games developers".

A more closed structure might fulfil the first half of that sentence, 
but would fail severely on the second half.

For instance, it would severely reduce the value of this list as a 
resource (for mainstream developers and newcomers to the genre) if 
people who came to it later in the day were excluded from all the 
discussion, ideas, commentary, etc that had gone before.

AIUI, the mailing list is not indexed by Google (I'm not sure why not; 
this may need looking into) et al at the moment, but in the long term 
that is likely to be a primary means of newcomers discovering the SIG 
and then getting involved.

> Especially considering how thorough some players can be with the
> "background checks."

I'm not sure what you're getting at here; is there something in 
particular we should be worried about?

Adam