various PBEM announcement sites [was: PBEM Portal]

From: Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@blackgate.net>

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:44:15 +0000

I will say one thing for PBEM Portal: unlike some sites (I am not going
to name them), PBEM Portal is free of obnoxious advertising and it's not
a colossal pain in the rear to use. I don't object to someone who
creates a useful alternative to an established service. As I've said,
PBEM News *could* vanish one day (although I intend to keep it online
forever), and it's good to have a backup in place before that happens.
But to create an inferior site and try to make a buck off of it, even
going so far as using the same name as an existing site in attempt to
misguide people ... I have zero respect for that.

People who try to siphon off money from the community by creating
poorly-designed pay-sites/advertising-laden sites are reprehensible. If
you are going to charge for it or annoy your visitors with ads, you
should at least create something better than what's already out there
for free. If you don't, or you can't, then stay home.

So, for folks who have yet to check things out, here are the useful,
no-cost, advertising-free sites for announcing or finding PBEM games:

PBM/PBEM List
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/
* exhaustive: covers everything even remotely related to PBEM games
* kind of hard to find things
* no way to post follow-up questions or discussions

PBEM News
http://www.rpglibrary.org/news/
* focuses on RPGs

PBEM Portal
http://www.pbem.tapirdesigns.co.uk/
* focuses on RPGs
* not many announcements (the site is new)

PBEM Nexus
http://www.pbemnexus.com/
* focuses on RPGs
* slow site
* kind of hard to use
* not many announcements (the site is not new)

--
bblackmoor
PBEM News Admin
2006-03-19

References

[PBEM News] PBeM Portal
pbem@tapirdesigns.co-dot-uk.no-spam.invalid (PBeMPortal)
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:05:17 +0000
Re: [PBEM News] PBeM Portal
Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@blackgate.net>
Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:18:27 +0000
Re: [PBEM News] PBeM Portal
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:38:02 +0000