Hi Mike we thought hard and long about the free turn thing. It doesn't
really encourage players unfortunately and is just us throwing away money.
Players play if they want to and don't if they don't want. It mostly isn;t
a matter of costs - rather of time for most players.
As for the cost of email turns - players seem to be totally confused about
the time and effort it costs us.
1) the orders are harder to input - causing more errors, and more time to
get correct.
2) we have to print them out - costing that (minimal but it all adds up) -
it also takes more time to do an email turn print out and preparation than
it does for paper - hence more costs.
3) email players invariably are less cautious about specifics in their
turns - causing us extra time
4) it takes more time to get a turn sent off than it does for the paper
turns (more labour costs).
5) yes, I agree that it does cost less than to post a considerable factor of
the turn cost.
So overall they are about the same for us to run as paper turns.
I know that a lot of you will be surprised by this. 
Clint
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Barber <mbarber999@yahoo.com>
To: mepbmlist@onelist.com <mepbmlist@onelist.com>
Date: 06 September 1999 19:40
Subject: [mepbmlist] Finding replacements etc