Re: AG: Mailing List??

From: dkass@cco.caltech.edu (David Michael Kass)

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4e1bg1$hv3@maureen.teleport.com>,
Brett Mason <csi2@teleport.com> wrote:
>Basically instead of posting messages to the newsgroup you would send them to
>an email address.  Then mailing list program gathers all the message and
>depending upon how I would configure it would remail the messages to all of
>those you subcribed to the list.
>
>You can still use this newsgroup but I thought a place where ONLY Adventurer's
>Guild was discussed would be something that everyone would like.

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...

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

Referenced By

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