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Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: FRPList
Message-ID: <398@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 16:58:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 16:58:18 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:16:57 EST
Reply-To: req@snow.UUCP (Russell Quin)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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Help!  I have been deluged with thousands (well, lots) of requests to join
FRPList.  Unfortunately, I an't reply to all of them.

I need a uucp address.  I am not authorised to send mail to ".arpa" sites.

FRPlist was originally set up to provide a forum for discussing the design of 
role playing games and campaigns, away from the plethora of AD&D articles in
the net.games.frp newsgroup.  Some people also said that they'd like to be able
to have somewhere they could talk about things without their players reading...

It has turned out that I have had far low a ratio (contributers:readers) for
the List to be viable.  So I am considering (after eight months) a change in
format, to posted digests in net.games.frp.  There wasn't a great deal of
`GM only' stuff anyway.  I will still mail to those people who don't get
net.games.frp, although the mail connection won't be any the more reliable.
For the information of previous subscribers, the most recent issue was before
Christmas, and was numbered 1.0.008.
I am trying to get together a set of reviews of game systems to help people to
choose one to run for a given setting or to decide which to look at to get
ideas...  more on that later.

I will carry on mantaining the mailing list for a while, particularly if the
number of contributions grows.

If you have mailed me recently & not got an answer, don't despair.  My mailbox
grew by about two dozen requests to join last weekend, & I haven't got through
them all yet.  It helps if you can a few details about your frp interests/
experience at the same time as you reply to my reply to your mailing...  and it
helps still more if I'm given a path that doesn't use ARPAnet, 'cos some of
the intervening mailers tend to optimise paths & choose routes that are not
always open to me, or fail to give full routing information!

	- Russell
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