[MN-dip] hi all

[stew0197 at d.umn.edu]

I'll be damned... I thought this list was simply a spam-source that I was too 
lazy to unsubscribe from.  Glad to see laziness pay off for once!  In any case, 
I'm in for a game.  

Brian Stewart

Quoting Ry4an Brase <ry4an at ry4an.org>:

> Hi, Chad, I'm glad to see this list coming alive too.  Here's the
> mn-dip backstory in case anyone's wondering why we have a list with 46
> members and still never actually play Diplomacy.
> 
> I've been playing dip for going on 15 years and have travelled to many
> of the world championships (at which I invariably get my ass handed to
> me).   I moved to MN and started trying to get games going in 2002.
> Over the next year or so we kept adding to the mailing list and trying
> to organize a game each month.  We'd almost always get seven players
> signed up to come play and then one ore more of the following would
> happen:
> 
>     1) someone would be an hour late
>     2) someone wouldn't show up at all
>     3) right after we started someone would announce they had to leave
>        in two hours
> 
> We'd almost always still have a game, but never a full game.
> 
> We tried various schemes of alternates, incentives, and dis-incentives
> but never got more than a few hours with six or fewer players.  Eventually
> everyone got discouraged and we let the schedule atrophy.
> 
> If now we can find seven people willing and able to commit to playing a
> game that usually lasts a minimum of six hours and who then (and this is
> the tricky part) actually do show up to do so, I'd be amazed and
> thrilled.
> 
> As for the location Tom is suggesting someone's home mostly, I think,
> because our previous games at the source would run into opening and
> closing time limitations and other problems.  Rather than playing in
> someone's home I think the solution is to rent a hotel meeting room or
> other event space, which I'd be happy to do.  Alternately classrooms and
> meeting rooms on the U of MN campus can be reserved and provide good
> amenities and no time restrictions once you're in.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:19:36PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> > P.S. To the list owner, I cannot seem to be able to unsubscribe
> > chewie-mn-dip at wookimus.net for some reason using standard Mailman
> > channels.  Could you simply force it's unsubscription?
> 
> Looks like it was the postfix style chewie+mn-dip at wookimus.net rather
> than the qmail style  chewie-mn-dip at wookimus.net -- removed now.
> 
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