Re: Another Greg Lindahl satisfied customer

From: phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <DrJ5Mw.6Bt@deshaw.com>, lindahl@deshaw.com (Greg Lindahl) wrote:
>Oh, arguments with me don't last that long, and there's traffic about
>quite a few games here if you stick around for a while. You'll also
>see announcements for quite a few non-commercial role playing games,
>so announce away if you'd like to find players. As you probably know,
>Usenet traditions regarding non-commercial announcements are very
>different from those regarding commercial ones. I'm not sure if this

Thing is, though, this is (near as I can tell) a group that's about
PBM, which is traditionally a frequently commercial venture in the
first place.  People keep invoking this "Usenet tradition" about
commercialism, but it's getting twisted:  Usenet tradition only
talks about *off-topic* commercial posts.  *Reasonable* commercial
posts to an *appropriate* group that has no .marketplace counterpart
is generally acceptable for a group like this.

Me, I deeply resent off-topic ads, and sending unsolicited ads to my
personal mailbox is a good way to get a lifetime read-only
subscription to every list the Phoenyx carries, but I expect to be
able to *find* ads when I go looking.

>is a more effective place for non-commercial rpg announcements than
>rec.games.frp.announce, so I'd suggest doing both. I do recall Rich
>Skrenta saying that his (commercial) Olympia announcement gained him
>quite a few customers, while his rec.games.frp.announce posting didn't
>get any. But they story might be different for commercial and
>non-commercial.

Dunno.  I pick up a few newbies everytime I post to r.g.f.a., but
each post has coincidentally coincided with our web page's addition
to another big search engine (I expect the next one will coincide
with Yahoo finding us, since I keep submitting us.  Guess they're a
little behind).

I post the general ad/FAQ once every month or two, and the
individual games when they start or when they need players (so far,
about one post a month).  Would it, then, be appropriate to
crosspost here, followups to r.g.frp.misc?

Silver
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References

Another Greg Lindahl satisfied customer
ptsbill@crl.com (William Rapp)
Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Another Greg Lindahl satisfied customer
phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Another Greg Lindahl satisfied customer
ptsbill@crl.com (William Rapp)
Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Another Greg Lindahl satisfied customer
phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000