Re: Weird PBeM server request

From: Dwight VandenBerghe <dwight@pentasoft.com>

Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3o84d0$psk@cello.gina.calstate.edu>, <rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu> writes:
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> From: rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Ray Mulford)
> Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
> Subject: Weird PBeM server request
> Date: 3 May 1995 07:36:16 -0700
> Organization: The Wild, the Willing, and the Innocent.
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> Message-ID: <3o84d0$psk@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
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>
> I've just recent gotten into trying to PBeM some of my favorite
> war/boardgames.  The dice problem has been solved for us thanks to the
> wonderful dice server by e-mail.  I'm running into another problem that's
> preventing me from playing some games.
>
> How do people exchange info if both players were supposed to make a
> decision secretly and reveal them simultaneously [like picking a TAC card
> in 1776 for example]?  If i could find a person to annoy daily, we could
> both send our selections to that person and he could forward the
> responses when they both [all] arrived.

Have each of the players send the selections to everyone else, encrypted
(you could even use pkzip's encryption scheme.  When all the selections
are in, then have everyone email out the keys.
Dwight

References

Weird PBeM server request
rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Ray Mulford)
Wed, 03 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000