Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 23:20:50 +0000

In article <CzH41x.L56@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
ROCHELLE NEWMAN <v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> wrote:

>First, emailing is more money.  Second, a lot of people have had problems
>with email arriving, and therefore don't want to trust it.  Third, depending
>on the email system you have, there can be format errors when it arrives, which
>will lead to it being entered wrong.  Lastly, you can't send note cards to
>other players or send in money via email - and if you have to send in your
>money by mail anyway, whats the advantage of sending in the turn by email?

Oh. I see there are big problems with the way this particular company
implements email.

Most companies that take email turns either charge the same or less,
ack the mail when it arrives so you *know* if it's there, and use the
message directly without retyping, so it does reduce typoes, and the
ack tells you about some of your typoes early enough to correct them

The first game I ever submitted email turns for was Moebius I. The
original company took email, used it directly, and charged the same
price. Then FBI took over the game, charged extra for email, and
printed and retyped the orders. Needless to say, I was unhappy about
this change.

Today, games like Olympia, You Rule, Conquest and Destiny, and
probably others, all have good implementations of email turns which
avoid the problems mentioned above. Play-by-disk games also exist,
perhaps mostly in Europe?, in which you mail floppies around. That's
nice for folks who can't get email (it's generally more expensive and
obnoxious in Europe than in the USA).

References

MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
swater@esd.sgi.com (Adam Waters)
Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:59:06 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 16 Nov 1994 22:19:02 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
llucky@crl.com (Bob Thomson)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 15:28:12 +0000
Re: MEPBM:Bill Field Speaks
v313mdm8@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (ROCHELLE NEWMAN)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 17:18:00 +0000