Re: Any UK PBM Magzines

From: NMR <resonance@forestgreen.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with Plod on this.
For too long we've seen too many perfectly good threads turning into slanging
matches when someone hijacks the thread and uses it to inflate their ego - This
thread is a perfect one - Offering help for a wep page, followed by snide
remarks that people "..Cannot be bothered.." and accusations that Wyvern and Roy
in particular have no regard to other peoples disabilities - and ending with
lectures.
It seems that there was no argument to win as the original posters on this
thread weren't looking for an argument - they were looking for PBM zines and
then people to contribute to a totally separate web-site to one that they run
and have ended up saying basically
"...Forget it, no wonder PBM's almost dead.."
If my own last postings annoyed at least a few of you then GOOD - perhaps if
people got a bit more emotional both about PBM and the stupidity of people
trying to kill ideas and threads through simple cynicism, perhaps the Hobby
wouldn't be as dead as it is.

Me? I'm off to play some decent games on my day off and write a few game turns.
Bye for now.

Roy wrote:

> OK, if you ever got an email off Nuke you'll find every signoff he has has
> the quote about Wankers from Melv - sent to him originally a few months ago
> and used with pride ever since.
>
> Calling someone a tosser (guilty!) is certainly stupid AND immature - but I
> think at times an insult even as crude as the one I made is necessary if
> only to get certain idiots either angry or embarassed.
> I continued this thread up the list with an honest offer to do something for
> people and got something snide and personally unpleasant back. Now Lindahls
> getting flamed by my colleagues shows how annoying his post was - certainly
> to me because I was trying (for once) to be innocuous and pleasant.
> If someone pisses me off I will react - I'm passionate about my Hobby and
> OUR games and don't appreciate people turning a perfectly valid thread into
> either an ego-trip for themselves or a chance to slag someone.
> If that happens they'll get it straight back with both interest and fury.
>
> Roy
>
> MadCentral wrote in message <19981030163052.26074.00001517@ng43.aol.com>...
> >>>Isn't it about time we had a web-site for the Brit  and Euro PBMers so we
> >don't
> >have to put up with the American dickheads we seem to see here?<<
> >
> >Oh come on guys!  Greg was a little over the top (as is his way), but did
> have
> >a valid point to make (at least, I thought so.)  You guys responded
> >very well, making your own fair statement.  But....
> >
> >But using "Wanker", "Tosser" etc etc and then flaming all Americans with
> such a
> >stupid statement makes you sound immature and makes the rest of us Brit and

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Re: Any UK PBM Magzines
NMR <resonance@forestgreen.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Any UK PBM Magzines
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Any UK PBM Magzines
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000