I removed a message in this topic and trimmed another. My apologies to the posters if this news is upsetting, but I want to assure them that it wasn't done because either post was in any way problematic on its own, but solely because the subject of festival locations was declared off limits prior to their appearance, and the reason for doing that can be read 6 messages up in this topic. (Er, make that 6 up on the previous page.)
Raineypark, no, we haven't had any DS stars "live" on the board (more like as silent visitors
), though something similar to what you're suggesting has been done very successfully in live chats. We were given access to the logs of some of these past chats on AOL, and I swear that they'll get onto a forum set up for them one of these days, hee hee!!
Come to think of it, we were treated to some very pleasant discussions with Matthew Hall, writer of the '91 series and son of, well, *you know*, who stopped by 2 or 3 times via a cyber cafe to answer fan questions (mostly about his book "Art of Breaking Glass") back in the old VantageNet days. I still have all those messages saved with my VNet stuff.