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goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Goldfarb) wrote:
> In article <ddfr-EE8073.18390909022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >In article <folfvv$1ce1$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Goldfarb) wrote:
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> >> In article <ddfr-CD0935.12152309022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >...a play by mail diplomacy game
> >> >conducted at real time--a year for a year--sometime in the sixties.
> >>
> >> I boggle. Did it play to completion?
> >
> >How could it?
> >
> >It had started at the Congress of Vienna. I think I joined a few years
> >later, was part of it for a couple of years. No idea what finally
> >happened to it--should be in the 1850's by now if it's still going.
>
> Oh, a game *about* diplomacy. I thought you meant specifically the
> board game "Diplomacy", designed by Allan Calhamer, which does use
> years to number the game-turns, typically starting in 1901. It's
> often played by mail (or, these days, e-mail).
I was using "diplomacy game" to describe a genre.
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