Re: Polaris Day 95 News

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>>Yes, it's my problem, Steve.
If someone said to me "You're sending me a load of junk, please stop",
I'd stop.<<

Of course you would.  but if somebody said ''please stop doing PBM turns for
people because I keep going around to cons and collecting them and they are
filling up my house'' you would think they were bonkers right?  My point is
that they aren't sending *you* anything.  They are sending them to an open
newsgroup and you are *choosing* to download them all.

>>Let Kerry post what his wants and *then* see how much flack he gets in
return. You can say "Screw you" to as many folks as you like - it does
not make you right.<<

I didn't say Screw You and neither did Kerry.  I tried (very hard) to be polite
and reasonable in my response.  Why so aggressive?

>>No, I don't think. You have a place or your DungeonWorld players to
inhabit for this, do you not? <<

Of course.  But it would benefit the general hobby is they *also* inhabited
*this* place.
Its no bother to me.  But I bet there are GMs out there who would like more
players to reach easily and I bet there are players who would welcome more
input to the group here.

>>I have a place for my Kickabout players to do the same. Middle Earth players
have their place and so on and so
forth.<<

Yes, they all do.  But I'd love to see them all here too.  This is a general
PBM group.  Yet almost nobody visits it.  Thats something we could address, but
you don't seem to want to.  I cant see why.

>> I'm assuming that Kerry's Polaris players do not have such a
place, otherwise there is little point putting the stuff up here. Target
audiences are important, Steve, you know that. Sending stuff to people
who are interested is okay, sending stuff *once* to those who are not is
okay.<<

You are entirely right.  But my point(again) is that sending stuff to this list
is *not* sending it to a person.  This list is for *anybody who visits it* and
the more traffic and messages which are relevant to PBM the better, in my
opinion.

>> Sending it every single day to those who don't want it is
definitely not good practise.<<

Definately not.  But sending different stuff about a game, every day, to a
general PBM newsgroup seems likea fantastic idea to me and I wish more people
would do it.

>>"Kerry Harrison? Oh yes, he's the bloke from madhouse USA that fills up
the Ng with crap every day, isn't he?"<<

Kerry Harrison is nothing to do with Madhouse USA anymore.  However I believe
the comment might go...
"Polaris... oh yeah... I've seen LOADS of stuff about that game.  It must be
really popular!"
Or 'Rec.Games.Pbm... what a totally *kicking* list.  That place is buzzing!"
Well, we live in hope.

>>This sort of comment is hardly good advertising and can only generate bad
word-of-mouth publicity.<<

I really don't agree with a word of this.  I don't believe it would generate
bad press for the person sending the mails *or* for the game they were sending
about.

>>I have no influence over Kerry and if he chooses to dump this stuff here
every day, then so be it. I will side with the decriers none the less.<<

Cool.  Well, I wasn't *siding* with anybody as such and I respect your opinion.
 I was just stating my own view that I'd like to see more of it.

Cheers!

Steve Tierney

References

Re: Polaris Day 95 News
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Polaris Day 95 News
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000