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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.games,net.news.group
Subject: Re: New Newsgroup (FRP on the NET)
Message-ID: <56@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 15:40:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 15:40:31 1985
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Summary: 

In article <128@mrstve.UUCP> mark@mrstve.UUCP (Mark Smith) writes:
>
>    Just taking a poll on how many people would be interested in a FRP news-
>group where you don't talk about FRP games, but you PLAY them.  This could
>easily be set up like the AD&D by mail seen in Dragon Magazine tm., etc, where
>you are given a verbose description of your surrounding, objects, monsters, etc,and you respond with your actions.  The number of turns would be 5 or 6 per weekand it would be a lot cheaper than playing by mail.

I vote against.

There are already several pbm games going on over  the  net  using  e-mail.
This  seems  to  me to be the appropriate way to implement such a thing.  I
see no reason to further burden the net by sending game scenarios and moves
all  over  the  world  to  sites where no one's even reading the group, let
alone playing the game.

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