> On (16 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...
>> BR> | MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the
traffic from this
>> BR>> Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...
>> | GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in
>> private
>> 
>> To de-list or to wait & see ?
> To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.
> Because I care,
> <+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

This LORD echo has been pretty much abandoned for well over a year now,
moderator-wise I think.  I've heard nothing from Bobby Queen in close to 
two years now if I recall right.  I vote to have the echo disbanded, but
only if mail pertaining to the LORD programs is welcome on the Doorgames
echo.  Which I think has been without any moderator as well for a long
time.  At any rate, pretty much all LORD programming has been dead for well
over a year now, with exception of a small handful or two of people
including myself.  LORD II programming is completely dead, and WT-Lord
programming is only alive because Joseph Watson still cares about the game.

Since I've seen no sign in many months of Ruth Argust in the Doorgames echo
I would like to know who is taking care of it now.  I see little point in
closing down this LORD echo due to it having no moderator, if it is going
to be moved to another echo that also appears to be without any moderator. 
But as things stand now in the Lord programming community, there no longer
seems to be any point to having a separate echo for LORD when there is so
little activity in it over the past year's time.

There appears to be only a few active programmers working on LORD programs
any more.  Myself, Marty Blankenship, Joseph Watson, Michael Preslar, and
Jay Hodges appear to be the only ones left who do Lord programming these
days.  That's just not enough people to warrant keeping a separate echo on
Fidonet for LORD I guess.

On side note, the Official Lord II IGM Archive site needs a new webmaster
since Max Larivee has been missing for some 15-16 months now.  If anyone is
interested in running the site, please contact Shannon Talley at
shannon.talley{at}fidotel.com and make arrangements with him to take over the
abandoned site.  I have no desire to run a Lord II site myself, but I owe
it to Bobby Queen to find a new administrator for his site, which was
created by Ben Tiefert several years ago with Seth Robinson's approval.
Donald Tidmore

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