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OTD - Explain/Help?
Penny Whistle Started conversation Feb 12, 2005
Hey Lil, I noticed someone at the Atelier mention OTD about some gossip that couldn't be put on h2g2. I did some digging, and just found the phrase "Off Topic Drift." Would you mind sending an email to ocarinafan at gmail dot com to help me figure out just what's going on here? Thanks.
OTD - Explain/Help?
Mrs Zen Posted Feb 14, 2005
Hiya Pennywhistle
Hope you don't mind me barging into to this convo.
OTD is one of countless email lists which hootoo researchers have set up over the years. I think I've belonged to eight or nine of them in my time, excluding the semi-official yahoo lists set up for the volunteer groups.
Some are set up to discuss various aspects of the site - I set one up myself to discuss plans for the UnderGuide for example, I have another for sharing photos and I set up a third for a group of researchers with a particular shared history which they wanted to share, but not on the open internet. The list goes on: I belonged to another one about a proposed Arbitration scheme. Others go back further than that into the mists of Internet Time, and were founded in the days when the site was closed before the BBC re-opened it in 2001. The largest of those was N2G2, (Nowhere 2 Go 2).
I think Off Topic Drift is one of those, but I am not entirely sure.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Ben
OTD - Explain/Help?
Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Feb 14, 2005
Hi Penny Whistle, sorry for the delay in noticing your post -- basically, what B said. This sometimes happens in the atelier, where so many people know each other personally and in real life, as you probably have noticed. I have never met any of the salonistas in real life! Anyway, Z uttered a personal aside to some researchers he knows that refers to OTD. It wasn't h2g2 news or "public" news, but just something relating to himself. Probably he shouldn't have done that and made other people curious about a private matter.
OTD - Explain/Help?
Mrs Zen Posted Feb 15, 2005
Anytime. I find h2g2 is like a small town. More people that one knows *of* than actually know, and more going on than one can keep up with. Some people end up knowing each other "very well indeed" , and others just remain u-names.
What I find scary, is how much of my RL now revolves around folks I know through the internet!
B
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