Re: What happened to pbem.com?

From: "lev_lafayette@yahoo.com.au" <lev_lafayette@yahoo.com.au>

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:34:36 +0000

bblackmoor@spamcop.net wrote:
> orcrender wrote:
> >
> > I used this site often when I was playing and now
> > that I'm staring again it is gone.  Here is the site.
> > http://www.pbem.com/
>
> Irony Games "PBEM News" site been down for a while (at least several
> weeks). Apparently the fellow who hosted and maintained that site for
> Irony Games has vanished. I spoke to Ed Taychert (of Irony Games) this
> morning, and offered to do anything and everything required to bring
> that site back up, including taking over the cost and labor of hosting
> it entirely (I already host a number of role-playing related sites,
> such as <http://www.rpglibrary.org>), but he wasn't interested. It
> looks to me like that site is just plain gone.
>
> I have considered setting up a new site that serves the same purpose,
> probably on RPG Library, but I would want to be sure that a) there's
> interest, and b) that there isn't already a good alternative web site
> set up somewhere. If there's already a good alternate web site set up,
> I think it'd be in everyone's best interest to publicize that web site
> rather than fragment the market, so to speak.
>
> So, what do folks think about that?
>

Collect the content from www.archive.org

Save it as a "historical document" on the rpglibrary.

Wait for the domain to expire. Reregister. Put content back up.

References

What happened to this site?
orcrender <orcrender@yahoo.com>
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:38:03 +0000
Re: What happened to pbem.com?
bblackmoor@spamcop.net
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:48:29 +0000