Subj : This echo
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Fri Nov 18 2005 11:48 pm

> On (16 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...
>> BR> | MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this
>> BR>> Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...
>> | GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in
>> private
>>
>> To de-list or to wait & see ?
> To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.
> Because I care,
> <+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

This LORD echo has been pretty much abandoned for well over a year now,
moderator-wise I think.  I've heard nothing from Bobby Queen in close to  two
years now if I recall right.  I vote to have the echo disbanded, but only if
mail pertaining to the LORD programs is welcome on the Doorgames echo.  Which I
think has been without any moderator as well for a long time.  At any rate,
pretty much all LORD programming has been dead for well over a year now, with
exception of a small handful or two of people including myself.  LORD II
programming is completely dead, and WT-Lord programming is only alive because
Joseph Watson still cares about the game.

Since I've seen no sign in many months of Ruth Argust in the Doorgames echo I
would like to know who is taking care of it now.  I see little point in closing
down this LORD echo due to it having no moderator, if it is going to be moved
to another echo that also appears to be without any moderator.  But as things
stand now in the Lord programming community, there no longer seems to be any
point to having a separate echo for LORD when there is so little activity in it
over the past year's time.

There appears to be only a few active programmers working on LORD programs any
more.  Myself, Marty Blankenship, Joseph Watson, Michael Preslar, and Jay
Hodges appear to be the only ones left who do Lord programming these days.
That's just not enough people to warrant keeping a separate echo on Fidonet for
LORD I guess.

On side note, the Official Lord II IGM Archive site needs a new webmaster since
Max Larivee has been missing for some 15-16 months now.  If anyone is
interested in running the site, please contact Shannon Talley at
[email protected] and make arrangements with him to take over the
abandoned site.  I have no desire to run a Lord II site myself, but I owe it to
Bobby Queen to find a new administrator for his site, which was created by Ben
Tiefert several years ago with Seth Robinson's approval. Donald Tidmore

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