Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players

From: baidins@copland.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)

Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <5mmgji$i9u@news1.zippo.com>, Greg Lindahl <lindahl@rt.com> wrote:
>Who's suppressing anything? That's an awfully ugly accusation to make
>when people are only saying, "Hey, let's hold some real discussions,
>not fake ones."

Leave off the quotation marks, the original objections to the TribeNet
did not say this at all and did not say why the original posting was
annoying.

Why annoying?  It consisted entirely of emotional remarks about how the
poster loves this game and a description of the game that could have come
from a markeeter's pen.  No information on what the turn sheets look
like and what information they contain, no information on the mechanics
of the game, what are the games pieces and how are they ordered around,
not much real information on the atmosphere of the game.

This problem is not confined to the original TribeNet posting.  It took
a whole series of detailed questionaires on my part for me to get enough
information here to decide to play Hyborian War.  Perhaps even
advertisements would be tolerated more if they consisted of real solid
DETAILED information instead of markeeting copy.

--
Juris Baidins
baidins@udel.edu

References

Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
lindahl@rt.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 30 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
lindahl@rt.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 30 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000