Subj : RE: anyone out there?
To   : All
From : yl112@cornell.edu
Date : Mon Jul 03 2000 01:50 am

From: yl112@cornell.edu
Subject: RE: anyone out there?



On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Scott Royall wrote:

> but the realization that the day has arrived forces me to the point where
> difficult decisions need to be made about the future of Conch. There are
> several interesting possibilities. The sad part is that many of them require
> termination of current operations. The OS/2 box, as it is, isn't up to
> supporting current technology.

Such as...?  (Current technology, that is.)

> The idea strongest in my mind is a web site where gaming and discussion are
> meshed together. You've mentioned a few sites where the two are offered, but
> I don't know how closely the activities are integrated.  I think tight
> integration led to things that made this echo so successful for so long.

Let's see.  The Amethyst Alliance (http://www.amethyst-alliance.com) 
offers pbems (?) and discussion, but I'm not very active there so I'm not 
sure how well it works.

Other sites:
Irony Games' Play-by-Email (http://www.pbem.com) is a news clearinghouse 
for pbems, but doesn't offer discussion.  It is, however, probably the 
biggest (non-newsgroup) such clearinghouse, or one of them.

Heck, look at http://alioqui.iwarp.com/shadows/links.html for a bigger list.

At the moment I don't know of any particularly good website that offers 
much *discussion.*  Hmm.  Perhaps that hole could be filled...?

YHL

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