Re: PBM Games

From: pa1005@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Richard Penner)

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 23:57:07 +0000

In article <830@ariel.unm.edu> seattle@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (David G. Adams) writes:
>In article <oZFpS7W00V4_04WFp2@andrew.cmu.edu> fb0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Ahban Bradbury) writes:
>>Are there any other Play by Mail players out there ?
[Some deleted]
>I am amazed that there are so few people who talk about REAL PBM games here.
>I actually tried to get people to join one of mine but most of the netters
>here jumped down my throat when they noticed that it COSTS to play in it.

Yeah, they should jump down your throat! (more flame below)

>(An aside to those people: GET REAL.  A PBM company must charge players
>for the use of their time and moderation, otherwise there would be
>no company)

Friends don't charge friends for 1)playing football 2)use of valuable time on
the telephone 3)use of lawn tools...
Why should friends charge for running an enjoyable play-by-electronic-mail
game?  It sounds like you are endevoring(sp?) to make money for
yourself and advertising on USENET to boot.  USENET is supported by
a lot of public dollars, and advertising on it is a pretty cheesy
thing to do!  "Netters" are mostly students and they DO tend to get
irate with any sort of unexpected fees, having seen enough of them
handed down from the Regents.  Some perfectly fine Roleplaying games
run for years without this kind of "switch-and-bait"

>I really think they should create a new newsgroup called rec.games.pbem
>since this group is wrongly named...

NO! "Real" mail is much too slow to adaquately roleplay.  I see
plenty of room in this news group to cover the standard traffic and
the aberant tastes of so-called "real pbm'ers" like yourself.

References

PBM Games
fb0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Ahban Bradbury)
Thu, 26 Oct 1989 19:14:15 +0000
Re: PBM Games
seattle@hydra.unm.edu (David G. Adams)
Thu, 26 Oct 1989 22:59:25 +0000

Referenced By

PBM Games
fb0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Ahban Bradbury)
Thu, 26 Oct 1989 19:14:15 +0000
Re: PBM Games
seattle@hydra.unm.edu (David G. Adams)
Thu, 26 Oct 1989 22:59:25 +0000