Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks

From: kazandar <kazandar@delphi.com>

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 07:42:49 +0000

I've checked out the expenses re pbem vs pbm extensively.  Pbem is so much
cheaper from the company's perspective that it's ludicrous to assume that
you save anything by retaining a paper format.  The only question concerns
accessibility to customers who don't use computers - a vanishing breed.

It's been my experience from dealings with the ME-PBM crowd that more than
50% of us are already using email on a regular basis.  This is more or less
true of the other paper-based games I've been in as well.  With luck, the
numbers will increase and the paper will soon be a thing of the past.

Rochelle was incorrect about a number of things, which you all have already
pointed out.  I would like to add that a number of programs exist which will
strip the mail headers and footers off the message and use the text directly
for input into a program.  They float around as freeware and aren't that
tough to write.  In addition, you can improve the efficiency simply by
having the customer download a company-developed program where the player
enters data and the computer transmits it in a set format to the destination.

A final word:  the U.S. Postal Service has about a half-dozen pieces of my
mail in the last year, including about three turns from GSI (and a rent
check).  Internet hasn't failed me once.  The only trouble I've experienced
has been with certain destination sites which always seem to be crashing
(usually overloaded university systems).  My mail gets delivered okay - and
then the system shuts down and scrambles everything.  On the whole, I trust
the 'net far more than snailmail.

Kazandar

References

MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
swater@esd.sgi.com (Adam Waters)
Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:59:06 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (ROCHELLE NEWMAN)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 17:18:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sat, 19 Nov 1994 20:40:26 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (ROCHELLE NEWMAN)
Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:45:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
adam@utic.unicomp.net (Adam Adkins)
Sun, 20 Nov 1994 03:24:53 +0000

Referenced By

MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
swater@esd.sgi.com (Adam Waters)
Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:59:06 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (ROCHELLE NEWMAN)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 17:18:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sat, 19 Nov 1994 20:40:26 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (ROCHELLE NEWMAN)
Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:45:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
adam@utic.unicomp.net (Adam Adkins)
Sun, 20 Nov 1994 03:24:53 +0000