Mining the Gold of Play By Mail Gaming

[GrimFinger]

Thanks for the kind words Grimfinger - though 'PBM gold' might well grant me more kudos than I really deserve -that blog post was mostly to stop me having to constantly explain to students what I had been doing the last twenty years

Oh, I definitely think that the blog posting of yours in question qualifies as PBM gold.

First, it's a lengthy posting, one of some substance. You don't just mention the commercial PBM games that you were involved with over time. You also gave a paragraph about each of those play by mail experiences. Most PBM related postings that I encounter online tend to be relatively brief affairs of a paragraph or less. In comparison, your blog posting has some meat on its PBM bones.

Second, you've mentioned some PBM games that I've never even heard of, before, plus some that I have heard of, before. In doing so, you broaden my knowledge of PBM history, albeit a bit and a piece at a time.

Third, your postings on the commercial PBM games that you were involved with over the years whet my appetite to know more. In essence, your blog posting sparked my desire to learn - to learn more about both the PBM games in question, as well as your own individual experiences with them.

Fourth, your posting wasn't dredged up as an artifact from ancient PBM history. Sure, it was posted near the beginning of last year, but that's still fairly recent. It's wasn't posted during the height of the PBM era, and while it took a while for me to find it, it stands to reason that others will find it, also, in due time - and when they do, I think that it makes for good bait to get them interested (or re-interested) in the postal genre of gaming.

Definitely, PBM gold!