[Consim-l] CBI Games?

[Allan Rothberg]

Mike,

Alas, single channel servers, like this mailing list, are a lot more
vulnerable to flame wars and off topic postings as there is no way to
avoid those distractions except by selectively paging past them. What's
more, there is no way to partition conversations, and that may be worse.
If, for example, a thread opens up here on ASL, and I happen to have no
interest in ASL, I have to wade through all the ASL posts and try and
spot the posts that are of interest to me. There's not much recourse to
that, however, short of splitting up a single mailing list into dozens,
or even hundreds of specialized mailing lists and then you are back to
the CSW model.

Is there a solution? I dunno. I do continue to subscribe to this list,
perhaps simply for nostalgia's sake, although the occasional gem does
pop up from time to time.

Perhaps we can redefine the use of this list for an On the Table/After
Action Reports mailing list. That is not to say that it can't also
continue to be used for other purposes as well.

Allan

-----Original Message-----
From: consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net
[mailto:consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net] On Behalf Of Mike
NotSpecified
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:31 AM
To: mst at cs.unisa.edu.au; Consim-L
Subject: Re: [Consim-l] CBI Games?

I'm not complaining, just sort of nostalgic for the old days.  I don't
really 
miss Joe Justice and the flame wars and such, but even open ended
questions 
like mine used to get more responses.  And, by the way, I am still
gratefull 
to you for the detailed response on carrier games, it has served me
well.  I'm 
finishing up a game of CV now and hope to have a nice AAR to contribute
soon.

The one off line response was, I suspect, just one of those quirks,
hitting 
reply instead of reply all sent it only to me.

I realize you are just poking a little fun at me, I take it with a grin.
This 
list has been invaluable to me over the years and I am always grateful
for the 
annoucements, opinions, AARs and even responses.  I just wish I wasn't
so 
surprised to see something from this list....


On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:14:14 +1030 (CST)
  Markus Stumptner <mst at cs.unisa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Mike NotSpecified wrote:
>> Well, my thanks to those who responded.  One to the list, one
off-line to 
>>me.
>>
>> I'm a little discouraged at the lack of traffic....
> 
> If you got two answers, why are you complaining? :-) 
> 
> You do tend to ask rather open-ended questions; compiling a list of
six or
> seven game descriptions does take time.
> 
> I'm more puzzled at the off-line answer. That must have been some
answer
> that the poster didn't dare mail it to the list.
> 
> Markus
> 
> Last 3 games played: Ligny (NLC), Eagles of the Empire: Borodino, Air
Cav
> --------------- http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/mst/games/
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