Re: AG: Mailing List??

From: lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page)

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

: As someone who does not play the game I would seriously suggest NOT starting
: an email list.  First of all, there really isn't that much traffic on the
: group that the AG posts are getting lost, so it isn't needed to allow people
: to actually get the posts.  The main reason though is because it will remove
: a fairly significant way of publicizing the game.  All of what I know about
: PBM games comes from reading the news group.  Overall, AG sounds like a very
: neat kind of game (I personally don't like character development games, so
: I'll never play it, but that's me personally).  I suspect that several, if
: not many, players got started when they read posts on the group.  If you create
: a mailing list, there won't be any more posts and you won't get any more new
: players.  For example, look at DM, it used to be widely discussed allowing new
: readers to find out about it.  Ask new readers and find out how many actually
: know the game exists, let alone might try playing it...  Or for me, I was
: considering playing BSE after reading the posts to the group, then they
: disappeared and I forgot about the game...

I'll still be posting the FAQ every couple weeks.

Garrett

: As far as the group itself, there aren't that many AG posts and I don't mind
: skipping (or sometimes reading) them.  If one game had over 50% of the total
: posts for a significant period of time (say a month or more) I could see it
: getting bothersome, but right now that isn't the case.

: --
: David Kass				Caltech Grad Student
: E-Mail: dkass@cco.caltech.edu		Planetary Science
: Research: dkass@venus1.gps.caltech.edu

References

AG: Mailing List??
csi2@teleport.com (Brett Mason)
Sun, 21 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: AG: Mailing List??
jiblet7@aol.com (Jiblet7)
Sun, 21 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: AG: Mailing List??
dkass@cco.caltech.edu (David Michael Kass)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000