Re: New PBeM/PBM Site

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

arnie@solid-gold.co.uk (Pete Williams) writes:

> Does this mean we have to chalk up a victory to general apathy?

Nope.

> I have to acknowledge that you should know better than I what people
> want to see on your web site, but I can't help wondering what strange
> streak of human nature would make people pay money to buy a paper
> magazine  (Flasgship, Paper Mayhem , whatever) with reviews and
> strategy articles, but not want to bother with this stuff when it's
> offered to them free of charge on a web site -- as you seem to be
> suggesting?

Uh, I didn't say that people didn't want to read it. I said that
people didn't want to _write_ it. My PBEM Fanzine website, as old as
it is, gets about 1/3 as many hits as the PBM List. The ancient
article on game administration gets around 2 hits a day. Odds are that
it has now been read by more people than a Flagship article. We have a
fine delivery system; we just don't have enough good content.

> but the original question was why do we have the
> right to berate and otherwise humiliate poor Phil just because he'd
> like to give it a go? So far the best answer seems to be along the
> lines of "because he couldn't do any better than what's already out
> there", which seems just a little insulting IMHO.

Nobody berated or humiliated anyone. You have yet to notice that
answer. It isn't much of a discussion when you're ignoring the answers
that people give.

> Perhaps during my rightious crusade for a truly extraordinary PBM web
> site I've also given offense to one or two current site maintainers.

Well, sure, I am annoyed that I stand accused of things I didn't say.

> If so then I humbly apologise as this was not my intention --

Then stop repeating the accusation. "Well, no, I didn't mean to offend
you when I said you were beating your wife..."

-- g

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Re: New PBeM/PBM Site
arnie@solid-gold.co.uk (Pete Williams)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: New PBeM/PBM Site
arnie@solid-gold.co.uk (Pete Williams)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000