Re: New entry for PBM List: I changed my socks today

From: Bob McLain <mclain@tightbeam.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Shulkind wrote:
>
> Scott Turner <srt@aero.org> writes
> >
> >By my count, there are three game moderators who are peeved at Greg
> >for not accepting their hype-ridden advertisements for the PBM List.
>
> Hey Scott, surely you know me well enough by now to know that I don't
> indulge in hype?! Asking for playtesters isn't hype!

I haven't had much to say about this tempest in a teapot, but now that
Scott has brought me into it by claiming TightBEAM isn't reliable, let me
just suggest a simple solution: don't listen to Greg Lindahl. Don't
listen to anyone. As Greg himself has said, he doesn't make the rules for
rec.games.pbm. He's just following the old-guard philosophy. If no one
complains about the Olympia Times, or the Quest Digest, or the Smugglers'
Run report, all of which are posted here regularly and all of which
support (and in that sense 'advertise') commercial games, I doubt anyone
will complain about moderators asking for playtesters or announcing their
games. If enough people complain, stop. But don't keep sniping back and
forth. Just do it, or don't do it, and be done with it.

Greg deserves credit for the PBM List. He's done it for a long time. At
one point the PBM List was the only site of its kind. Times change. There
are games on TightBEAM, PBMGAMES.COM, and PBMNET that aren't on Greg's
PBM List, and I'm sure the reverse is true as well. You don't *have* to
put your game on Greg's list. You don't have to put it on the other sites
either. It makes sense to do so, but it's your game. Do whatever you
want. And let the people who complain non-constructively about Greg's
list, or TightBEAM, or any free service put their talent where their big
mouth is and do their own bit for the good of our hobby...

Bob McLain

References

Re: New entry for PBM List: I changed my socks today
summit@easynet.co.uk (Steve)
Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000