I sent the message Steven was talking about

From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)

Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 20:24:24 +0000

Re: Broad Axe Tavern game

The message referenced above was in reply to a private email message I
sent Steven Gabai.  In summary, I affirmed PBEM in general, and
Steven's right to play in particular, before stating a concern and
making a suggestion.

Concern: though the byte count of messages may be on a par with
other games on this newsgroup, the posting frequency is far in
excess.  Some may be annoyed by this.

Suggestion: try to get everyone playing the game to put a common
substring in the Subject header, so that those of us who do have kill
facilities can make use of it.  (I see that Steven has asked everyone
to put "Re: Broad Axe Tavern" in the subject -- thanks!  Now if only
everyone would comply :-)

To clarify my own opinion: I read rec.games.pbm only for discussion of
PBM mechanics and experiences, and to keep an eye out for new games
starting that might interest me.  I auto-Kill all diplomacy, Russian
Civil War, etc., turn summaries, since I don't have the time to keep up
with them.  Broad Axe Tavern will become a non-issue to me personally
when I can reliably auto-Kill all player/turn messages.  Though I find
all of the activities on this group at least somewhat interesting, I
just don't have the time to follow all of them.

Now that we're all caught up, Steven has said he is willing to discuss
PBM mechanics with respect to his game.  I'm *very* interested in
reading what he considers experimental about his game.  What is the goal
of the experiment?  What is innovative about the implementation?
Apologies if this requires a rehash.

Commodore Perry
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References

Re: The Broad Axe Tavern
gabai@paul.rutgers.edu (Steven Gabai)
Sat, 24 Jun 1989 13:21:28 +0000