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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.games.pbm
Subject: When to post Dippy turn results?
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 16:40:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 16:40:15 1985
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There has been some discussion in one of the games I'm in about when
turn result postings should be posted in net.games.pbm.  I'm wondering
what a wider audience thinks about this, so I'd like to see the issue
discussed publically.

Here's how I look at it -- I prefer to have the results posted immediately.
This has the advantage of making it more likely that the
players in the game will receive the turn results promptly.

``But what about kibbitzers?'' someone cries.  Well, in the ``real'' world
of international diplomacy at the turn of the century (and certainly after),
there were lots of kibbitzers which influenced the decisions of the
people in power -- newspapers, military journals, etc.  As long as no
inside information is leaked by the kibbitzer, I see no problem with
people posting comments on their view of the world.  Also, some folks are
blessed with their own in-house tacticians wherever they work/study --
not everyone is so lucky.

jeff myers