Re: Comments on ARENA

From: nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 20:18:24 +0000

spas084@sus.edu.eur.nl (Nomen Nescio) writes:
>
>Hi there,
Hi.

>
>This group is called Play By Mail. Is ARENA a PBM game, or an E-mail game?

The charter of this group specifically mentions that it is for the
organisation and discussion of postal games, both snail mail and
electronic mail.  ARENA is perfectly apropriate here.

>Rec.games.pbm is filled these days with ARENA, isn't it smarter to make
>another group for ARENA players (something like rec.games.arena?), for it
>seems the real PBM players have left this group, and it is not easy to find
>articles about PBM games between the arena articles!

The initial bulk of mail on ARENA is because it is just starting up.
The same thing happened when Atlantis started up, and when Olympia
started up, and even LEGENDS and Duel Master will have spurts when they
seem to crush all the rest of the board traffic.  These spurts are
generally short lived, (when is the last time you saw a post about
Olympia?), and certainly don't require a whole new board (the amount
of time it takes to vote on a new group is likely to out live the burst
of postings about the new game).

> Or am I wrong, and is
>ARENA a PBM game? if so, forget what I wrote. Greetings,

ARENA is a PBM game, the mail is just electronic.

Mel

References

Comments on ARENA
cspas084@sus.edu.eur.nl (Nomen Nescio)
Sat, 11 Sep 1993 16:30:36 +0000