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SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sat Feb 21 23:44:53 UTC 2009


>You're right, the OP and SP are not the same party given the 
>specifications as they stand today.  But the hybrid specification 
>(in draft, and I haven't read it) seems to have only been applied to 
>scenarios where the SP and OP are the same party.

So . . . hybrid, as in "has the blood of two ancestors running 
through its veins" (is both at once), not "two original genomes 
spliced together to produce offspring with the best of both worlds" 
(is part one and part another). That makes sense now. Thanks :)

-Shade



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