play by electronic mail
play by electronic mail
(games)A kind of game where the players use electronic mail
to communicate. This may be done via a human moderator or
an automatic mailing list exploder on some central machine
or it may be fully distributed with each player just
addressing his mail to all other players.
This is a natural extension of "play by mail" games conducted via snail mail.
http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbm.html. Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.
This is a natural extension of "play by mail" games conducted via snail mail.
http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbm.html. Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.