play by electronic mail

play by electronic mail

(games)A kind of game where the players use electronic mailto communicate. This may be done via a human moderator oran automatic mailing list exploder on some central machineor it may be fully distributed with each player justaddressing his mail to all other players.

This is a natural extension of "play by mail" games conductedvia snail mail.

http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbm.html. Usenetnewsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.