An open-minded person might not succeed the first time, but a closed-minded person will never succeed as long as he continues being closed-minded.
Oooh, insult via maxim, fantastic. How about, "
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
?
My point is this. When you say "
a little wasted effort"
, there are two things to keep in mind. First, how little is "
little"
, and in particular how little effort is it proportionate to the payoff? For example, here's another way to distribute the information: compile a telephone list of all DROD players and call them, one by one. I hope it's obvious that the effort here is so huge that it isn't worth it for the results. Similarly, yet another way: Mike Rimer can put a sign in his yard. Not much effort, but again, the results are so tiny that once again the efforts aren't worth the results. That's what concerns me here: that the "
little wasted effort"
not become too much.
Second, there's been a lot of discussion around here of why the community is dead, or something like that. I think that whatever one's opinion, it's generally agreed that there's work to be done around here. On the user side, there's playing holds, testing holds, participating in contests, and so forth; on the company side, there are still a lot of bugs to remove from RPG, there's work on the Next Big Project, there's heaven knows what else to do. And ultimately, any effort put into a project with only a small payoff is effort that might have been better put into something that actually needs to be done.
I'll pass it on if Caravel wants to do something with it. 
Disclaimer: I'm Welsh, left-handed, and stupid. 
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