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- Subject: Re: Dedication points
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- In article <1992Dec29.172012.14105@muddcs.claremont.edu> irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith) writes:
- >Joel Furr (jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu) writes:
- >> I see that adjudicator games are sent turn by turn to the editor of
- >> Electronic Protocol
- >
- >I'm not sure that this is true; does Eric really receive reports from every
- >single game played on all four Judges? Even just all EP games would be a
- >pretty huge chunk; if so, I'm duly impressed.
-
- I don't know. I was missing the boat on exactly what EP _is_... whether
- *all* games played on the adjudicator were covered by an EP aegis, or
- what. As Josh said below, apparently only those meeting standards are
- covered. I didn't know that, never having seen an issue of EP.
-
- >> and thence to the "Boardman Number Custodian" -- who, according to the EP
- >> House Rules file, keeps track of all Diplomacy games being played in the
- >> world! (Yes, I know he doesn't keep track of the game that seven people
- >> are playing in their basement in Poughkeepsie.)
- >
- >Actually, if the seven people in Poughkeepsie sent the BNC their results, it
- >might add it to its archives. Or does the BNC only track postal games? I've
- >forgotten, and am too lazy to look it up right now; I will if no one wants
- >to do my homework for me.
-
- Who is the BNC? Does he work for Avalon-Hill? Does Avalon-Hill exercise
- any control over games played electronically using the Diplomacy name
- other than permitting the maps to be sent out but not the rules?
-
- >> I've never seen an issue of EP since I started reading r.g.diplomacy and
- >> r.g.pbm, so I don't really know what happens with all that information.
- >
- >The phrase "issue of EP" is vaguely ambiguous, insofar as EP's Chapter Two
- >has drifted away from being a Diplomacy 'zine (in the sense of a newsletter
- >to report Diplomacy results), and nowadays looks more like a magazine about
- >Diplomacy. I think that Eric Klien's Chapter One is still a Diplomacy 'zine
- >in the traditional sense, though I'm not entirely sure. It also seems that
- >Eric's long update list that he posts periodically a) isn't an issue of any
- >Chapter of EP; b) hasn't been updated in a while.
-
- Chapter One, Chapter Two, aaaaugh. I'm lost in jargon again. What *is* a
- Diplomacy 'zine as opposed to a magazine about Diplomacy? The 'zine would
- just track games in progress? How often is EP published? I'd sure
- appreciate anyone who has a copy archived sending it to me... if it's
- published in rec.games.diplomacy and rec.games.pbm, my sites have expired
- their copies.
-
- >So, to try to summarize, The Electronic Protocol is a fairly disorganized
- >organization that covers both Judge and non-Judge Diplomacy. It assigns
- >reference numbers to games played on the Judge or via e-mail which request
- >them and which meet its standards; it then keeps records of the end results
- >of such games and generates a Hall of Fame based on those results. There are
- >two publications related to EP, EP Chapter One and EP Chapter Two; Chapter
- >One hasn't been published in a while, and Chapter Two is currently in
- >transition and is trying to figure out what it's place in the world is.
-
- So "EP Chapter Two" doesn't ever really appear as the second part of a
- two-part post containing "EP Chapter One"? I think part of my confusion
- stems from the use of "EP" to mean
-
- 1) a loosely organized governing body that assigns reference numbers and
- keeps a hall of fame
- 2) a magazine with two parts, one of which no longer gets published
- 3) a set of house rules used by Judge games
-
- >I'm not sure how the BNC figures into this. I would guess that Eric or Nick
- >could ship off results to BNC, but I don't know if they do. My impression is
- >that the BNC is sort of like EP, but it includes postal (and possibly FTF)
- >Diplomacy as well. I don't know if EP games get BNC reference numbers or
- >not; such things do exist for postal games reported to BNC. I'm also still
- >just figuring out what EP is myself, so if anyone has corrections to the
- >above, please post 'em (or send me e-mail if you'd rather).
-
- Yeah. Please do. I love games but am still trying to stretch my brain to
- grasp all the electronic Diplomacy jargon and terminology.
-