Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <712b2f$q1n$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>,
"Brandon Blackmoor" <BBlackmoor@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>A: Several places. One is at eGroups: http://www.egroups.com/ . Another is
>at Onelist: http://www.onelist.com/ . Both will allow you to set up your own
>e-mail mailing list for free. There is another pbem mailing list service
>called Phoenix, but unfortunately that service blocks perfectly valid e-mail
>addresses for utterly spurious reasons, and you will save yourself some
>headaches by avoiding it.

Very unprofessional, Brandon.  I expect better of you.  At the
least, you could endeavor to spell properly when you're
slandering, or libeling, or whichever they've decided Usenet is:
"Phoenyx."  As in http://www.phoenyx.net/, the PBeM RPG
Listserver.  Phoenix.net is a little ISP down in Houston (yeah,
I'd have expected Arizona too, but there you go) known for its
Civilian Aeronautical Corps spams.  No relation.

I explained the altogether unspurious reasons to you in email.
They're also available as a matter of public record at
http://www.phoenyx.net/remailer.html, should anyone care to look.
For the rest of you, the issue Brandon is so hot and bothered
about is that most Phoenyx listowners take advantage of the "no
remailers" feature on the Phoenyx, and do not permit subscribers
from places like Hotmail and Yahoo and, you guessed it, Bigfoot
(unless they've got a technical reason why they don't have
anything else, such as they're using a library's web-only access,
in which case we just steer them away from outright broken
webmailers like Hotmail and Usa/Netaddress).  There is absolutely
nothing preventing Brandon subscribing from his Erols account.
Or, for that matter, from him politely asking that gamemaster to
make an exception, other than the fact that he stormed off in a
little tizzy to post here, and it's now A Matter Of Principle, oh
my.

Remailers cause a great deal of headache for mailing list owners,
and I'm sorry, Brandon, if you feel that the gamemasters who are
volunteering to provide *you* a service for free should be
inconvenienced so that you can have your way.  But insofar as I'm
concerned, good gamemasters are a good deal harder to come by
than good players, so I can afford to turn a few of the latter
away to keep the former from burnout.

--  Karen Cravens      | Phoenyx PBeM RPG Listserver: majordomo@phoenyx.net
    silver@phoenyx.net | http://www.phoenyx.net/
                  Sic semper telecommunicatis.

References

rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
"Brandon Blackmoor" <BBlackmoor@bigfoot.DELERE.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
"Brandon Blackmoor" <BBlackmoor@bigfoot.DELERE.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000