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What the ATWL is not The All the Weyrs List is absolutely not affiliated with the domain name atwl.com, nor do we have any idea what they consider their name to be an acronym for. If what you were looking for is very similar to the word "Pern" but with one letter changed, try the .com site. The ATWL is not a MUD, fan club organiztion, or a play-by-email (PBeM). It is a resource for the various MUDs, and it can certainly be used by offline fan clubs or PBeM lists. No roleplay, story-telling, or other interactive communication occurs (unless you count the e-mailed acknowledgements we send upon receiving updates) on the ATWL or within its domain name, however. The ATWL is not a record-keeping service for the various games. Game admins should consider the ATWL to be a backup, at best. While we hope that we will be able to hand the list over to someone else before we are unable to update it for months, RL doesn't always make that possible. There is a game out there which was using the ATWL for its only records, and as noted in the history, at one point the ATWL was not updated for nearly a year. The former maintainer lost all but a few of the e-mails for that period. The game in question still, after nearly two years, has not filled in all the gaps, and still has several hatchings missing because no one on the game kept their own records. While we hope we hand over the list before anything like this happens, please be aware that is can happen and has happened. To butcher an aphorism: Please do not put all of your eggs in one mound. The ATWL is not a place for MUD wars or in-game politics. If Ms. McCaffrey tells us that she has shut down a game for some reason, we will take appropriate measures (as stipulated by Ms. McCaffrey). We are not going to remove a game just because the admins are mean to players or whatever. Please also don't ask us to take sides in on-game disputes, such as if two people consider themselves to be Weyrwoman. Please also don't ask us to retcon impressions, for or against. If you want to play on-game that a dragon created yesterday actually impressed in a hatching held two RL years ago, that's fine with us, and we'll even list the dam and sire in the Weyr listing. Please don't ask us to assign the OD dragon the same clutch code or list it in the hatching records, though. On the opposite note, please don't ask us to remove a dragon who is already listed in the hatching records. We'll mark it as NPC or deceased, but not remove it.