Re: Four posts in two years!! From: Former Trout
"David E. Cohen" <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:18:28 -0400
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--sFd7M-V2M-dfzJpFDc-0eQ-bcgnj8TnkkUZrdnJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One of the few things that sets Cat23 apart from all of the other Dip forums is the complete absence of any rating system, which, to me, is a good thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Polley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:29 PM Subject: [CAT23-GM] Four posts in two years!! From: Former Trout >I believe three things happened with Cat, its former master > left the field and ended his server support, Game Master's > such as myself would fish for players and come up dry. And > players began to support DipyWorld because that is were all > the action is. Last but not least when I replied to your > message it places no-reply ... in TO: field. Cat is not a > 'Dipy' like name, let it die a natural death. > > What might be more useful is if someone were to combine the > DipyKnight and CAT features into a new server supported > DIPYKNIGHT site, with a better Player rating system. One > that is relative rather than accumulative. In other words > you do not have a high rating just because you have played > in 100 games. > > > > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email > the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at > http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca > > --sFd7M-V2M-dfzJpFDc-0eQ-bcgnj8TnkkUZrdnJ Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <!-- Network content --> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 490px; padding: 0 15px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>One of the few things that sets Cat23 apart from all of the other Dip forums <br> is the complete absence of any rating system, which, to me, is a good thing.<br> <br> ----- Original Message ----- <br> From: "Hugh Polley" <<a href="mailto:hapolley%40yahoo.ca">hapolley@yahoo.<wbr>ca</a>><br> To: <<a href="mailto:CAT23-GM%40yahoogroups.com">CAT23-GM@yahoogroup<wbr>s.com</a>><br> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:29 PM<br> Subject: [CAT23-GM] Four posts in two years!! From: Former Trout<br> <br> >I believe three things happened with Cat, its former master<br> > left the field and ended his server support, Game Master's<br> > such as myself would fish for players and come up dry. And<br> > players began to support DipyWorld because that is were all<br> > the action is. Last but not least when I replied to your<br> > message it places no-reply ... in TO: field. Cat is not a<br> > 'Dipy' like name, let it die a natural death.<br> ><br> > What might be more useful is if someone were to combine the<br> > DipyKnight and CAT features into a new server supported<br> > DIPYKNIGHT site, with a better Player rating system. One<br> > that is relative rather than accumulative. In other words<br> > you do not have a high rating just because you have played<br> > in 100 games.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email <br> > the boot with the All-new Yahoo! 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