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

From: thor@netwit.net.au (ME!!!)

Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Scott,

I must say that I can see your viewpoint and understand it.  TV has
had a lot of publicity lately, but I think that comes down to
Patrick's rampant fanaticism more than any underhanded attempt at
publicity.

Personally, I think it's a good thing to see stuff about heaps of
different games here.  I usually only see Olympia, Smuggler's Run and
Middle Earth listed here.  Now I have seen Blood Pit and Darkness Of
Silverfall offered free by the Catling's, TV of course, and talk of
several other PBEM's.

I don't mind seeing an increase in traffic here, so long as it is PBM
related.  If I want to see Spam, I'll go back to the INWO and alt.2600
groups (groan).  I don't care about publicity generated within the
newsgroup, I just want to know about good games!  I've played a fair
few in my time, and am somewhat bored with most of them.  Only
Magelords (new to me) and Keys Of Medokh are holding any interest to
me lately, and now I have TV to try as well.

Nonetheless, thanx for your comments.....I'll shutup now.

Steve

On Tue, 27 May 1997 19:59:44 GMT, snorton@netcom.com (Scott Norton)
wrote:

>	While I can't say that I'm sorry to see a new game getting a lot
>of attention here, what has been happening with Tribe Vibes is not a
>spontaneous phenomenon.  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.  Some people have been
>attracted to the game by this method, and now we are seeing more people
>post about it.
>
>	A few posts to prime the pump, as it were, might be legitimate,
>but the extent to which this has been done with Tribe Vibes (which I have
>never played, and I have no axe to grind with anyone connected with it)
>at least approaches misuse of the newsgroup.  I respectfully suggest to
>the people who have posted the majority of items about Tribe Vibes that
>they back off.
>
>	Just today, I saw a favorable post about one of my favorite
>games.  I refrained from posting a followup precisely because I had
>done that two or three times in the past, within the space of the last
>six months.  It seemed to me that such a posting would approach a misuse.
>If not for the Tribe Vibes postings, I might not have felt that way.
>
>Scott Norton						snorton@netcom.com

References

Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
Patrick Travers <ptravers@flash.net>
Sun, 25 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
thor@netwit.net.au (ME!!!)
Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Play-by-Email : TribeNet accepting new players
snorton@netcom.com (Scott Norton)
Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000