[EVA] to tangent or not to tangent?

[greg at ghost2138.org]

>The fact is, a lot of stuff happened here, but it was a 
>while ago. Those who
>have joined after that, are logically bound to find it 
>boring and feel like
>moving things up a bit. But those who already have been 
>there don't really feel
>the need to rediscuss something already dealt with 2, 
>3...5 years ago.

I can respect that. I've never mucked around much with 
mailing lists, only one I spent any time on was for Delta 
Green, a spin-off of the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Since Delta 
Green was a sort of X-Files government conspiracy meets 
Cthulhu there was simply a ton of divergent sources that 
could be drawn upon for inspiration. Discussions of ideas 
for campaigns, elements of the mythos, or just things that 
were creepy as hell. Whenever a n00b brought up a point 
that had been hashed over they were directed to an indexed 
and cataloged archive of the entire mailing list. That's 
right, every message of value was put right in the proper 
place. So the n00b could read the body of discussion, see 
if he had anything to add, and it could be brought up in 
the list proper. 

I don't think I remember seeing archives here. If there 
are archives, are they as easy to search? If so, that 
could be helpful. 
>
>Some of the best discussion can come from tangents, but 
>there's no guarantee at
>that when there's only tangents.

Ah-ha! Post something scintillating and on topic then. 
Then there won't only be tangents. :) Personally I could 
go for another big round of Winn-Lee bashing. Seriously. I 
don't understand why people who don't have a love of the 
art get involved in something artistic. Grrrrrr!