////////// E-Mail Tag \\\\\\\\\\ From: tle33710@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 04:53:00 +0000 And now for something completely different... ******************************************************************************* * E-Mail Tag * ******************************************************************************* Hi. E-Mail Tag is a small electronic-mail based game. The idea is simple: every time you log in, check to see if you have been tagged. If you have been tagged, all you have to do is tag someone else. The purpose of E-Mail Tag is simply to get to know other people who use the system. There is no strategy involved; this is just to have fun. Originally, the game was started at University of Illinois, and the winner of the game gets a free pizza lunch. This will be harder to implement on a national basis, because I don't think Garcia's Pizza (Champaign, IL) can deliver that far. But I am open to suggestions... The game works as follows: I tag someone via e-mail, then they tag someone via e-mail, then they tag someone via e-mail, etc. The message can be as simple as "Tag! You're It," or you can be as original as you want. Each person must send me a carbon copy (Cc:) so I can keep track of who's been tagged. That's all the labor you need to put into the project. The scoring system is a little difficult to explain. I have a list of exact times that I will check to see who's "it." At these times, which occur every 1-4 days, I will score a point to the person who's been tagged. The person with the least points "wins." Analogy--> It's like Hot Potato. When the music stops (I check for tags) that person is caught. Only, (s)he is not excluded from the rest of the game. Many tags may occur between the times I check. If you don't want to be caught, simply tag another person before I check; throw the hot potato to another person. Some technicalities: No tagbacks. You can tag me, if you wish. You must send me a Carbon copy of the tag, so I can keep track. All players get a complete list of other players. After that, updates will be sent to everyone (and/or posted to rec.games.pbm) with player changes, additions, and points awarded. Right now there are 34 players, mostly from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. To join in, just send me e-mail telling so. Also, include your preferred login (if different) and a nickname you use (mine's Genghis). Also, send me your questions, comments, rules clarifications, Swiss bank account numbers, etc. In case you were wondering, one string of tags can be pretty slow for 34 players. That's why currently there are two strings. Even more will be added depending on the responses to this posting. If you are tagged more than once, you will need to tag the same amount of people in return. In the future, it shouldn't be difficult to automate this thing. But for now, I'm running it manually to see what features I will need for the automatic version. Again: please send me questions and comments if you have them. I think that this might be an opportunity for those who don't know a lot of Unix to talk to each other and get to know some more experienced programmers; most of the U of I players are freshmen. For this reason, I ask that everyone extend the invitation to those who don't regulary read rec.games.pbm. Perhaps this could be posted to local university or company notesfiles/news systems. For example, at U of I, this could be posted in uiuc.general, where more people can read it. I thank those of you in advance who can do this for me; together we can make this project BIG. (...end heartwarming text.) All in all, this is designed just to have a little fun, and to get to know other people from around the country. I hope you'll join. Thanks, --------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------- Tim Elliott ||| charter "Genghis" e-mail to: Genghis@uiuc.edu / | \ T.A.P.E.S. "Kilroy" (Name of the Week) University of Illinois/Urbana ATARI member Don't forget your towel... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." --Frank Lloyd Wright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Paul Work (paulw@cs.umr.edu) for showing me rec.games.pbm! Referenced By Up