Re: Remember PBEM.Com?

From: Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@blackgate.net>

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:42:49 +0000

Geoste wrote:
>
> My website offers the simplest, easiest, quickest,
 > and a clean way of announcing of game...

Actually, posting an announcement to your site is a far more complicated
than announcing it at PBEM News <http://www.rpglibrary.org/news/>: more
steps, and /lots/ more boxes to fill in. And, like Greg's site,
navigation on your site cumbersome, there is no way to respond to an
announcement, and there is no way for the original poster to follow up
with more information. At least, not as far as I could tell. PBEM News
offers all of these things (and more), and has since the middle part of
last year.

I guess I'm just wondering what it is you are trying to accomplish,
since what you *say* you want is already available, and has been
available for a good long while now. It looks to me like this is a
vanity project: you want to do it just to say that *you* did it. I can
certainly sympathize with that, having had my own share of vanity
projects over the years.

> Many gamers have began to announce their sites in such places as
> Yahoogroups

In particular, the RPG Player Sanctuary YahooGroup
<http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/RPG_Player_Sanctuary/> is very
active with game announcements. It does not have the easy navigation or
added usability features that PBEM News has, but it's still a useful
place to check when one is looking for a game.

As for "fragmentation", that's Greg's issue, not mine. I think having a
variety of places to post game announcements is a good thing: that way,
if I get hit by a bus some day, and PBEM News eventually dies because
the domain expires, people will have alternate places to look for games.

Although... come to think of it, maybe I should prepare for that now.
Maybe form a small group of RPG Library trustees: people who will help
administer the site while I am alive, and who will promise to take it
over and pay for it after I am gone.

You seem like a likely candidate, as a matter of fact. Would that
interest you?

--
bblackmoor@spamcop.net
2006-01-31

References

Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Paul Walker <usenet@blacksun.org.uk>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:55:15 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@blackgate.net>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:50:16 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:32:46 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
"KaciePettit@gmail.com" <KaciePettit@gmail.com>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:11:43 +0000
Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:09:54 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:29:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:44:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:16:52 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:09:47 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:06:35 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Paul Walker <usenet@blacksun.org.uk>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:55:15 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@blackgate.net>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:50:16 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:32:46 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
"KaciePettit@gmail.com" <KaciePettit@gmail.com>
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:11:43 +0000
Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:09:54 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:29:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:44:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:16:52 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:09:47 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:06:35 +0000