People have been asking all day where our yearly April Fool's day joke is this year. You've kept your eyes peeled all day, waiting to laugh at the absurdity of our joke, only to be surprised when someone falls for it. So where is it? There simply isn't one this year. And that leads to questions of why. There's no easy way to put this. For the past few weeks, things have slowed down as the development group has fallen to pointless quibbling and arguments over the direction of CircleMUD. It has come to the attention of Jeremy Elson, Alex Fletcher, Chris Epler, and I, that a certain member of the core development team who shall remain nameless has been trying to sureptitiously fork the CircleMUD project. While forks are ordinarily welcome, it is the manner in which this anonymous party has been attempting to steal resources from the main development effort in order to support his own. Most seriously, the problems he purports to be addressing have simply not been brought to our attention, despite his position to address them in the official CircleMUD distribution. We are left only to conclude that this member of the core team intends to sabotage the CircleMUD project for his own gain. The offending member has since been expunged from the development team. It is our hope that this allows the project to be continued without any further distractions. As we are looking forward to progress and have already spent the past few weeks being forced into this tough decision, we respectfully request that members of the CircleMUD community refrain from public discussion of and speculation on this issue for the time-being. We are preparing an official statement to be released any day now. Until that time, we would like to apologize for the lack of an April Fool's joke this year and ask for your understanding and support. Best wishes, The CircleMUD Development Team (undersigned) Jeremy Elson Chris Epler Alex Fletcher Daniel A. Koepke -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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