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

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

snorton@netcom.com (Scott Norton) writes:
> Two or three people have posted the majority of
> the posts about it in what appears to me to be a calculated attempt to
> create an artificial impression that there is more interest in this game
> on the newsgroup than there really has been.

Actually I was suspicious when the first batch of posts arrived.
Something about the way the clump of posts show up all at once,
one asking a what seemed like a staged question, the followup
immediately answering it with lots of hyperbole.  At the time it
even seemed like the posters had lost track of which accounts they
were trying to appear to come from, and had posed as a newbie asking
a question only to post the answer a short time later from the same
account.

Unfortunately the posts have expired from my news spool, else I could
go back and see if this was really the case or if I was mistaken.
But it did seem fishy.

Has this game really been around for 7 years with 150 players, and
we've never once heard about it on the net, in Paper Mayhem or
Flagship?  (Although the use of "Vibes" in the name suggests that
it may have been around -- perhaps in development -- since the '70's).

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Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
snorton@netcom.com (Scott Norton)
Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000