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.

. Usenet

newsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.

(1994-10-27)