A correction to last month's PBEM From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 21:13:23 +0000 Mel Nicholson points out that we got the origin of his game totally wrong. Sorry! >> SPARF is loosely based on UEFL. > > Bzzt. Not even close. SPARF is based on the game RAFL, which was > made by myself in 1985. RAFL was also an Aussie Rules simulation > which was indended as a live gaming exercise rather than a PBeM. RAFL > had a following of about two dozen players, and died of natural causes > around 1987 when I decided I didn't want to run it any more. A few > years later, when I got better at UNIX programming, I conceived SPARF > and designed it as a RAFL-by-email-with-an-automated server. For those of you who have no idea what PBEM is, it's a monthly (really, I promise) fanzine about free play-by-email wargames. If you'd like to look at back-issues, ftp to ftp.erg.sri.com, directory pub/pbm/PBEM-Fanzine, or send me email. Referenced By Up