net.gamers needed?

From: ghost@ra.UUCP (Glenn Host)

Date: Sun, 05 May 1991 03:30:17 +0000

I have noticed that there is a lot of gamers out there (including
myself) who are looking for people to game with.  This includes
fantasy role playing of all sorts, board gamers, strategy gamers,
minitures, etc.  What I wish was their was a net.gamers directory listing
for gamers listing games they played, names, Email addresses,
phone numbers and cities.  And a side note if they were looking for
a game to join or looking for gamers to join their game.

Since I don't know of one, I am willing to create one.  I will supply
a program to access the data (In C on a generic UNIX system; perhaps some
kind soul will do the converting to VMS/DOS/etc.) and gather information
into a ascii database.  Unfortunately, since I don't have a anomyous (sp?)
ftp site to post it on I will have to send it to all people on a mailing list
periodically or have it posted it if the traaffic warrents it.

Step One: Gather the data
Format (please try not to modify the format since I don't want to
retype every entry)

START <end of games marker>
Name: <your name>
Phone: <optional>
Email Adress: <optional>
Area: <city/town>, <state/providence>, <Country>
Notes: <option text>
Until: <date (yy/mm/dd) this information is good too - maximum will be 1 year>
Game1
Game2
Game3
END <end of games marker>

Example:
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START
Name: Glenn Host
Phone: 716-620-1141
Email Address: ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil
Area: Reston, VA, USA
Notes: Looking for game to join
Until: 91/05/01
AD&D
Titan
TFT
Diplomacy
King Maker
Shadow Run
GURPS
DC Heros
END
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Comments, Suggestions?

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