Re: Bad News for UK PBM players

From: "C:DEMONSPOOLMAIL" <phoenix@phildee.demon.co.uk>

Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article: <4e8fr0$rlp@crl.crl.com>  echack@crl.com (Edmund C. Hack)
writes:

> Few small business do. Most small businesses in the US are
> undercapitalized, since loans for them are _extremely_ hard to get.
 I'd
> suggest that a national postal strike in the US would kill all the
> PBM-only companies in the US (exceptions would be the email-only
> companies, part-timers with real jobs, and companies such as ABM
who have extensive outside income.)
>
Well said I think. The situations here and there are presumably very
similar. PBM firms, with one or two exceptions of course, are all
operating on a tight budget, as it's not exactly a huge market
with thousands of customers beating down the door to get to us!
Loans are hard to come by here too, and I don't suppose you get too
many full time PBM operations over there either. I think the vast
majority of people running PBM games are part-timers with 'real
world' jobs.

Greg Lindahl is presumably one of those people who thinks us "greedy
moderators" are making a fortune out of exploiting gullible players.
Nothing could be further from the truth. I find the attitude of
people like him very strange. It is a free market. I have no
complaints about people running games for free, good luck to them, it
helps ensure that those charging maintain high standards, which is
good for everyone. I could list a thousand and one things where some
people are paid for doing it while others do it for fun. Does Greg
have a downer on restaurants, which charge for food? Does he object
to professional sportsmen, singers and so on? Does he not go to a bar
because he can brew his own for nothing? Does he live in a cave, so
he doesn't have to pay someone else for a house? No, but he would
presumably like to prevent people making a meagre income out of
working 100 hours a week processing PBM games. Maybe he doesn't like
the idea of someone earing a living providing pleasure for people?

I've no complaints about his preferring free games (if that is indeed
the case), that's his choice. But I do object to offensive and
ignorant comments.

Maybe Greg would like to state the case against PBM games with
turnfees? I would be very interested in the arguments against it
because I've never heard any. Why should anyone want to deprive
someone else of a livelihood??

Sorry if this sounds aggressive, but I've had 'real' jobs, and I
chose to go into PBM. I now work harder than I've ever done in my
life, for less pay than I've ever earned in any other job. I do it
because I love PBM, not for the vast sums of money.

Cheers,

Phil

References

Bad News for UK PBM players
kebl0110@sable.ox.ac.uk (Chris Dickson)
Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
Phil Shulkind <chelsea@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
llucky@crl.com (Bob Thomson)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
echack@crl.com (Edmund C. Hack)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Bad News for UK PBM players
kebl0110@sable.ox.ac.uk (Chris Dickson)
Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
Phil Shulkind <chelsea@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
llucky@crl.com (Bob Thomson)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
echack@crl.com (Edmund C. Hack)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000