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From: electrohome@watcgl.UUCP (electrohome)
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Subject: Re: When to post Dippy turn results?
Message-ID: <2244@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 13:29:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 13:29:34 1985
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Reply-To: electro!carlo@watcgl.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
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In article <1287@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers a.k.a. 
	Latitudinarian Lobster) writes:
>Here's how I look at it -- I prefer to have the results posted immediately.
Me too.

>This has the advantage of making it more likely that the
>players in the game will receive the turn results promptly.
The key word here is *likely*.  In most cases, mail is 2 to 3 times faster but
where the advantage really comes in is if there is a foulup in the E-mail
path (e.g. cbosgd having air-conditioning problems, as happened last week).
If the results are going to be posted anyway, why not post early rather than 
late.

>``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.  
>Also, some folks are blessed with their own in-house tacticians wherever 
>they work/study -- not everyone is so lucky.
Definitely!  Let's share the wealth and benefit from it.  

>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.  
No problem so far and I don't really forsee it being a problem.


				-Carlo Sgro
				 Electrohome Canada
				 Computer Graphics Division


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