On Fri, 17 Jun 1994, Dan Lester wrote:
 
> On Fri, 17 Jun 1994 13:06:54 -0500 Robert A. Hayden said:
> >The person will be deleting users based on various infractions they
> >perform on the list.  The postings require specific formatting and the
>
>   Oh, my, we ARE structured, aren't we.
 
Sorta, I'll explain below :-)
 
> >new owner is suposed to point out to people when they make a serious
> >formatting error.  Repeated infractions lead to deletion as a punitive
>
>    This seems really structured.  Hope you don't have over a dozen or
> so members.  Don't think you'd have a lot of fun on a list with a
> thousand or ten thousand members.....
 
Well, about 200 members . . .
 
> >way to remind the subscriber the importance of formatting correctly.
>
>    Despite the fact that I'm SURE I'd never want to be on such a list,
> I'm curious about what kinds of formatting could possibly so important?
> Seriously.
 
The purpose of the list is that all 200 members are all contributing to a
single fictional storyline.  The formatting requirements are fairly
straight forward and there is none of that "put this character in this
column" stuff.  In the end, all of the postings are stuck together to give
us a single epic storyline.  It actually does work out very well, and the
problem formatters make up less than 5% of the posters.
 
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