Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!mccolm From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: FRP: Newsgroup vs. Mail (a comment) Message-ID: <8126@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 15:47:12 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.8126 Posted: Fri Dec 20 15:47:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 01:14:25 EST Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 26 Firstly, I myself don't want to see FRP narratives in the newsgroup, mainly on account of jealosy. (I'm not running characters right now, due to a dearth of referees other than myself, and it's sort of like being the only one without an SO.) But there's an explanation to the opposing position. The E-mail system is simply not reliable enough to support a campaign. You've all seen all the messages from people, saying their messages aren't getting through, and it can take up to 6 weeks for a message to bounce back. And, for example, the problem of "private criticism;" I sent a nasty scathing reply to the jerk with the disgusting and degrading sexist comment in his signature, , and it bounced. Sort of a letdown. And you want to run a campaign on that mail net? Better to do so in the news group, where messages are numbered. --fini-- Eric McColm UCLA (oo' - kluh) Funny Farm for the Criminally Harmless UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,trwspp,cepu,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!mccolm ARPA: mccolm@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU Quotes on the Nature of Existence: "To be, or not to be..." -Hamlet (Wm. Shakespeare) "I think, therefore I am." -R. Descartes "" -Gleep (Robt. Asprin)