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For folks my age, both were used interchangeably with context explaining if it was about an expense or availability. The youngins seem to use it for some form of "out of their mind" behavior label.

I would posit that not being able to discern that the label is not reserved merely for disagreeing suggests fully which category you might land in.

I remember that class. Always tried to convince some poor kid to turn in a blank paper for the Truth exercise.

How long was the debate about whether anything could be turned into a 100 page thread?

I would also argue, he seemed rather proud of it in that particular call-out response.

I thought a lot like this at times in the past and then I remember the Wisdom of James Wallis. "Life's too short to deal with F*Wits." You don't owe anyone discourse.

I'm partial to Frontmatter...

Look, the deadline is public information. If they don't do the paperwork it's not a human's fault....

At most, apologize that some of the forthcoming word choices may be unpleasant to some people but are presented in full for context. Which, coincidentally exactly what the &%^(^& debate is about. :note: Dovetailing your thought, not disagreeing - if unclear.

Silly thing didn't quote. Lee Gold.

I'm like that with Busiek.

When I was a federal contractor for a Major US Department of Justice, there were a number of people who would give me grief about coming in at 9 to 10 when they came in at 5 when ALMOST NONE OF THEIR COWORKERS WERE AROUND TO CATCH THEM DOING NOTHING and would go home at 8 hours meaning they were...

Lee is awesome.

FTS-001 was the fidonet Frontdoor mailer spec. It covered who Netmail and echo mail was handed off between nodes and related things. WWIV was not a common thing in my neck of the woods - I think they ran their own system for exchanges. Sorry. I saw the squirrel of nostalgia.

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time... Most folks who BBS network nostalgia just Fidonet. You never hear someone wax on about CandyNet, or VNet. Was WWIV even FTS-001?

There is a MEGS retroclone in progress out there...

Decision paralysis via optionals is a common cause of new folks hard bouncing on a rules set.

That's a fair thought, but my optimism is not quite so robust. :)

Between beginner advice (for the boxed set) and the advice you expect in the DMG.

How do you bridge that gap?