On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Wayne Pillion wrote:

As most of you may know, a couple of week ago, our beloved Taskmistress, 
Foxtrot, announced that she was hanging up her cattle prod for a while 
because she no longer had time to prod the various authors into 
finishing their stories and asked for people to volunteer to take her 
place.

I volunteered to do so.  However, there was one condition I wanted to 
set.  I don't have the time to do the entire job myself, so I'm 
willing to be one of several Deputy Bastard Taskmasters From Hell, each 
of which would be co-equal and Foxtrot would be our Chief in absentia.  
So far I'm the only one to volunteer.  I'm now looking for more people 
to help.  The job requires tracking down any authors you notice being 
slack in posting by e-mail, IRC, MUCKS, or anyplace else you know they 
frequent <but not through the ML> and prodding them into finishing 
their work.  Then you just inform anybody else on the team so that no 
author is shocked into working too many times ^_^  This should not take 
too much time if a number of us are doing it.  If you want to see 'fics
finished in a sometime this century <and the authors I'm referring to 
know who I'm talking about>, join up now and help that to happen.

(Mouse runs up)  Me!  It sounds like fun, and I need a new hobby 
anyway...  ^_-
Do we have to use a cattle prod, or can it be a wea--um, a device of 
coercion of our own creation? ;)
Should I be accepted, will I meet the person (wait, you said Foxtrot, 
right? Is this a person?? ;) whom I would be substituting for?

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(Hey, does that mean I'd get to put something cool in my sig too? :)