[Hunt03] Re: 2004 MIT Mystery Hunt

[Brian Tivol <tivol MIT EDU>]

The list hunt-rumors was something I started by asking who on the
Boston NPL mailing list would be interested in joining.  It was
designed to discuss two sets of rumors: the ones that Mark referred to
in his email about potential changes to the 2004 Mystery Hunt, and the
ones that float around on campus about the crazy brainiacs of the NPL
who visit every year.

All those "there was a rumor circulating"s from Mark's mail were
rumors that I was told to leak by some of the organizers.

I ran into some more of this year's organizers over Halloween and they
concur with Mark's report: the rumors about changes to the Hunt's
structure are things that had been suggested at one point but
ultimately passed over.  They also engaged in some intra-team
name-calling.

Sorry for not trying harder to get more recent leaks over the summer.

Mark also wrote:
> I'm going to take the rest of this email to directly rebut Eric's
> message from a couple of days ago, which made me absolutely livid.

What bothers me the most is that Eric was on hunt-rumors.  We debated
a lot of topics, many of which were mighty close to what Eric wrote
about himself.  I'm very disappointed to learn that Eric had planned
what he'd planned without mentioning it to anyone else on that list.

--brian