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Quake Developers is supposed to cover the following areas 
of interest:

  - file formats and conversion issues,
       e.g. DOOM WAD, Quake WAD, VRML files and others 
  - 3D map editor GUI's and implementation
  - 3D rendering algorithms and related lookups,
       most notably BSP trees, radiosity calculations
  - implementation details of 3D renderers and engines,
       e.g. discussion of algorithms, data structures
  - implementing device drivers and supporting hardware
  
The following topics will be tolerated at least in times
of low traffic:
  
  - legal issues, 
       e.g. on non-commercial third party Quake add-ons
  - bug reports on client, server,
       or non-commercial third party tools



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There are a lot of useful and useless topics that are
definitely not subject of the Quake Developers list, amongst
these are

  - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
  - details of gameplay, e.g. cheats, installation, setups
  - non-technical and non-programming aspects of map editing,
       i.e. design issues, difficulty balancing, the works
  - use and programming issues related to
       using Quake's scripting language
  - networking and server programming issues
       that are covered by the Quake Networkers list
  - commercial or non-commercial map editing projects,
       total conversions
  - advertising and spamming
  - general game design related discussions
  - general basic animation and behaviour discussions
  - illegal activities, CRC/POP checks, leaked betas

Note that the Quake Developers does NOT cover map editing 
issues.



Credits
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Joost Schuur, who founded and maintained the doom-editing mailing
    list, and established a place for "advanced" discussions.
Steve Benner, who maintained doom-editing with me for about
    a year in 1995.
Arnt Gulbrandsen, without whom there wouldn't have been a
    quake-editing list, and probably no doom-editing list, too.
Stig Venaas, who recovered the list in april 1996 after the
    crash on nvg.unit.no, prior to the transfer to gamers.org
Piotr Kapiszewski, who created and supports quake-dev now
    at its current home.

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