Initially, (1994?) Nomic World was a MUD, before MUDs started getting called MOOs. Synchronous communication was difficult with players from lots of different time zones, and voting was done with some persistent game objects. A lot of serious discussion actually happened by e-mail because otherwise it was difficult to keep track of it.
The transition to Agora Nomic, mailing list based, was relatively painless. it certainly makes sense to augment with other technologies, but "archaic" is in no way a meaningful criticism, and is false. You know what would be archaic? Paper mail, that's what. Oh no, that would be positively modern. You know what would be archaic? in-person conventions. The players must all physically convene at Agora Island every five years to agree on the rules until the next convention... On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:31 PM, VJ Rada <vijar...@gmail.com> wrote: > personally i dislike the mailing list but it's not that hard to log on > to gmail compared to a forum, it doesn't really bother me at all. > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Reuben Staley <reuben.sta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Using a mailing list over a forum is the same type of argument add using > > IRC instead of a chatroom. Yes, it's an archaic form of communication. > > Yes, other software might have more features. But the thing is that you > > get to choose what client you want to use. You have far more choice with > a > > mailing list and less with a forum. The issue is, are those changes > going > > to be worth it? > > > > On Dec 23, 2017 07:16, "Cuddle Beam" <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Seeing how activity and Office-holders are waning, I'd like to know how > >> people would feel about transitioning Agora off a Mailing List and onto > a > >> different kind of substrate. > >> > >> I personally find our mailing list-only system to be archaic and makes > >> Agora's human cost to be even "playable" quite high, versus having a > GNDT > >> or something to handle tracking gamestate. > >> > > > > -- > From V.J. Rada > -- “no man should be compelled to do what the laws do not require; nor to refrain from acts which the laws permit.” Calder v. Bull (U.S. 1798)
