There are 2 messages totalling 99 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk? (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:51:52 -0400 From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......> Subject: WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk? On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, McLisa said: > So let's get going on when. Remember, if it has to be that > long, we can hold off until after New Year. (I can't believe > how late in 2012 it is already!) Me either. As far as I can see, the only time for war this fall would basically be the first two weeks of November. That would allow a month, more or less, for discussion and planning, while still getting the war done before Americans have their Thanksgiving. I'm not saying it's impossible, you understand. I'm just saying that options for this year are *very* limited. My only caveat on leaving things till after Christmas is past experience. During the Six Year Hiatus, the question of war was raised *twice* in the fall (albeit even later than this); and on both occasions it was immediately postponed as impossible until the New Year. The same thing happened last year, as I recall. In all three instances, the New Year came and discussion did *not* recommence. The holiday season had basically blanked people's minds! I'm torn. The risk in waiting till the New Year seems obvious. On the other hand, scheduling for war this fall will be *tight*. Greer gwatson2@r....... http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:56:34 -0400 From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......> Subject: WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk? On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, McLisa said of the upcoming war: > How long should it last? > <In a LaCroixian voice> Discuss. Every time this gets raised, someone suggests that we have a one-week war. However, the shorter the war, the more condensed everything has to be. How are we going to fit in everything that people have come to expect? First (and last), people write their own getting-to-Toronto stories, and also spend time lingering over their departures at the end--and who can blame them, but it does take up a couple of days at either end. In the past, there have been attempts to curtail this part of war; but that's just spoiling a part people's pleasure. Once the war premise is revealed, it takes a bit of time to get reactions organized. Only then can the actual "plot" of the war get underway. Not that the war premise itself is ever all that war consists of. I'm sure no one who's been there will forget that wars have developed their own traditions. In other words, there's a bar fight *and* a party to fit in, and often a third pan-faction get-together, as well. Anyone who has had to organize one of those things (and I'm speaking as the person who, during the last war, wrote a multi-part Thanksgiving dinner that was attended by almost everyone) knows the lengthy behind-the-scenes to-and-fro of e-mails necessary to bring it off successfully. In other words, a one-week war is a no-hoper. Two weeks (plus a little lag time for late posts) is pretty well the minimum--and also, if you look at old wars, a fairly typical length. Much longer, of course, and RL becomes intransigent in its own demands. Greer gwatson2@r....... http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/ ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 30 Sep 2012 to 1 Oct 2012 (#2012-191) **************************************************************
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