Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 14:06:32 -0500 From: "Robert F. Heeter" Subject: W2WT: New Rule for Replacing Timeouts (D) Hi all - We've made some revisions to the time-limit rules. As most of you know, if your turn comes up and you run out of timeouts, we skip your turn, and then if your turn comes up again, we drop you from the game. It's very important to manage your time well, get turns in quickly, and avoid wasting timeouts. But sometimes it's unavoidable - and that's what the timeouts are for! We've made the rules a little more "friendly" to allow players to avoid using too many timeouts, and to allow lost timeouts to be replaced: (1) If you have a serious crisis and can't take your turn for some reason, send in a query message to the game, and we'll put you "on vacation" so you don't burn up your timeouts. (2) If you can't send email at all, you can make a phone call to a volunteer listed below. Please pick either your own moderator or else whoever lives closest to you. As long as we hear from you, we'll put you on vacation. (3) After things return to normal, you can ask the moderator to restore your timeouts by reducing your remaining vacation time. You can "buy" each new timeout at the cost of two vacation days. -- Bob Emergency Phone List (from East to West) ========================================================================== ** Call these numbers only if there's a crisis and you can't send email.** ** If you have to leave a message, be sure to leave your complete phone ** ** number so we can call you back to confirm that we got the message.** Ivan Baird: (Eastern Canada) (GMT -0400) Work: (506) 363-3349 (Deitech Computing; 24-hour answering machine.) Gary Best: (US-East Coast) (U.S. EST = GMT -0500) Work: (617) 737-0234. (In 9:30 am to 6 pm; voice mail x116 otherwise) Home: (508) 583-1094. (10 am to 10 pm weekends.) Elam Birnbaum: (US-New York) (U.S. EST = GMT -0500) Home: 212-877-6104 (5 pm to 10 pm only) Work: 212-645-5879 (10 pm to 5 pm; just leave a message) George Hulseman: (US-West Coast) (U.S. PST = GMT - 0800) Work: (541) 482-2037 ** numbers will change in the spring ** Home: (541) 482-1301 ** at both places, ask for George ** Bob Heeter: (international) Home: +44-958-302787 (GMT; November 25-December 21 - in Britain) 609-921-6483 (EST; after January 4 in the U.S.) Can leave messages. Please call only from 8:00 am to 11:30 pm.