Hey, Bob!
This is Rafe. We corresponded many years back over the ZGG boards, when I was running a game there. - I am not following everyday discussion on Blackmoor, any more, but I just wanted to say: No worries. Everybody here understands that you might not remember just about every little detail about a thing that, at the end of the day, was a free time activity, and secondary to everything else that really took place in your life. I know that there are people and entire communities that are extremely unnerving and sometimes even (for whatever silly reason) hostile when when it comes to this topic; we here at the CBI take pride in saying that we are none of them, and that we don't tolerate this kind of behavior.
I understand that you wrote this originally as a response to "klintron" in this thread over here:
viewtopic.php?f=83&p=33647#p33647- I am sure he meant no offense.
- As to the larger situation, though, in my personal choice words, please, Bob, stop giving a damn about people who try to pick up fights about this; there's a small portion of people in the oldschool community that are, to use the most apt term I know for this, full-time sheisters. They wil go to great lengths to prove that they are smarter and more versed in the topic than everyone else, and they will use this claim to act as if they were community leaders. The reality, though, is that they are not. Other, balanced, "normal" people are. And normal people will not try to corner anybody because of stuff like this.