From: ColinForbes <timewyrm@suilven.demon.co.uk>
I agree with Michael...
ditto. I know I don't do smails since emails are so easy. So I defer talking
to smailers to someone else.
A few people are on Email, a couple don't have Email or
phone, etc. etc.
After a while, the EMailers can't be bothered to write letters, the
letter writers don't write, no-one phones, everyone startsdoing their
own thing, and soon (after dropouts) you have a 5 vs. 5 with
the neutrals
(who joined knowing they had no allies to start with) asking
what's going
on.
This seems to have happened in several games I'm currently in. I wonder
if it's the case that the more different methods of communication are
available, the less communication actually happens? I'm especially
annoyed that players with email tend not to bother with people that
haven't linked their brain cells up to the net.
Which is me. I don't talk to smails since its 'harder' to write a letter,
find their address, buy a stamp, and visit the postoffice.
But when I didn't have email (ie I couldn't afford to spend 3K on a
computer), I would always ring people up and write lots of letter.
I think i've become lazier since i've started using emails.
m