[Those not interested in Richard's PBEM can skip this message - James]
First there was Glasnost, now Perestroika...
Hello fellow PBEMers! It's always been a major chore for everyone in the
PBEM to maintain their own copy of the PBEM aliases. Richard and I were
discussing this one day via email with Dan Corrin. I opened my mouth
just a little too far and offered to maintain a set of aliases for
Richard and everyone else on the PBEM. Richard, being no fool, refused
to let me get out of it, so after a couple weeks of struggling, late
hours, and poking and prodding, I am proud to announce the new PBEM
mailing list!
If you:
1) are a PBEM player, and
2) recieve this in the TML digest, and
3) do not recieve a copy of this as personal mail, then
4) send mail to [email removed].
N N OOOOO TTTTT EEEEE
NN N O O T E ::
N N N O O T E :: THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE PBEM HAS
N NN O O T EEE STARTED UP YET - IT'S JUST MORE
N N O O T E INFORMATION. THIS INFORMATION HAS
N N O O T E :: BEEN BLESSED BY RICHARD AS OFFICAL.
N N OOOOO T EEEEE ::
To mail to everyone on the PBEM, send email to: [email removed]. I
forsee this alias as being the most frequently used for most pbem
traffic. This single alias causes distribution to the three-dozen or so
PBEM members. It also makes sure that Richard gets a copy, and deposits
a copy of the mail in an archive file where I can get to it on sunbane.
You are now freed of having to worry what people's addresses are and who
has joined or left the PBEM. Now it's my problem :-).
If you have a question or dialogue for Richard (the PBEM Referee) alone,
you can send it to [email removed].
If you have an email address change, you can mail it to
[email removed]. Richard and I only will recieve this mail.
If you have an email emergency (like PBEM mail is going to the wrong
mailbox, or someone has noticed all this PBEM mail and is going to,
heaven forbid, yank your email account), send mail to
[email removed]. This alias (named after the telephone distress
line popular in the United States) will send email to Dan Corrin,
Richard, metlay, and myself and one of us can do an emergency patch to
alleviate the problem.
If you want to reach a specific character, you no longer need worry what
the email address of that character is! You just mail to
pbem<character>@engrg.uwo.ca. For example, Commander Ger is
[email removed], and Bhyarrvouf is [email removed]. Here's
the definitive list of all the character aliases:
pbemabuko pbemferdy pbemmerwe pbemsilvmane
pbemaiwi pbemfrieder pbemmorser pbemsokoku
pbemakhouw pbemger pbemmrog pbemspear
pbemayrlathi pbemgoughzar pbemnarayanan pbemtabor
pbemazani pbemgrey pbemnayduz pbemthomas
pbembishop pbemhammer pbemneriika pbemtweel
pbemblaine pbemhooper pbemnewphin pbemvoga
pbemdeaith pbemhorne pbemniigurd pbemvouf
pbemdemer pbemhryawi pbemrak pbemwerner
pbemdevious pbemiasic pbemralf pbemwitfield
pbemdezierd pbemjett pbemredd pbemwrinkley
pbemdoejin pbemjonson pbemrobins pbemyorblin
pbemedmondsen pbemkatie pbemschmud pbemziggy
pbemeihoftyah pbemlimner pbemseverin pbemlisteners
pbemfarouk pbemmahlel pbemshrike
Again, mail to any one of these addresses will be forwarded to the
player playing the character (pbemlisteners is a special case, and
covers two people listening in on the activites, but not involved in
play). Also, for GM purposes, a copy of the email will go to Richard,
and another will be filed in an private archive summary file.
In the case of players who have lost their e-mail access, or have left
the playing field temporarily or permanently (example: the character
Much T'B'Dezierd), they still have a character alias (pbemdezierd), but
the mail is forwarded to Richard instead of the original player. This
mechanism allows for easy temporary suspension, too (Dr. Werner,
pbemwerner, played by Ron Abramson, has been temporarily redirected to
Richard Johnson).
There are also aliases for several large subgroups of characters. These
are:
pbemaslan all aslan
pbemralphan all on ralpha
pbemskaad all turnskaad employees
pbemshuttle all on command shuttle
pbemtalisman all on talisman
pbempaladin all on paladin
pbemalcyon all on alcyon
pbemaurora all on aurora
pbemphin all phins
pbem everyone in the pbem
pbemall ditto. everyone in the pbem
So, for example, if I wanted to inform everyone in the PBEM of Charyn
Robins' (my character) activities, I would mail it to [email removed].
If she had a matter only for people on the Paladin starship, where she
is Nav/Comm, I will mail to [email removed]. If she was having
a very private discussion with the Dr. Christian Van Der Merwe, I'll
mail it to [email removed]. And lastly, if I had a question for
Richard alone, I'd mail it to [email removed].
James