Re: Conquest and Destiny

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 19:04:36 +0000

playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms) writes:
> gl8f@fermi.clas.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
> In response to your letter to me:

I take it you posted Greg's privately-mailed response to the net?
This is quite rude, btw.

> If I also want to get a little free credit to play that game, why not?

Because if everyone did this, the group would quickly degenerate into a
garbage heap.  Long-time readers of rec.games.pbm do not want to see
this happen, which is why they try to educate folks who violate the
established conventions of etiquette.

Just imagine if every player of C&D decided to make a stab for referral
credits, and posted glowing testimonials and rules excerpts to this group.
Now imagine everyone in every game with referral bonuses doing that.
Throw in weekly hype-laded ads from all the PBM companies here, and the
group would quickly become write-only.  (Just like misc.entrepreneurs,
which I watched go from a useful group to a total wasteland of scams and
MLM posts in the course of two months).

A good starting place for new net.citizens are the fine documents
regularly posted to news.announce.newusers, including:

Rules for posting to Usenet
        Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
        A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
        Hints on writing style for Usenet

I would be happy to mail these to anyone on request.

--
Rich Skrenta

References

Re: Conquest and Destiny
playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)
Wed, 14 Dec 1994 08:45:06 +0000