Re: What is the attraction of 'Round the Table' auctions?

In message <1128037528.393163.200570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Derek Carver <derekcvr@xxxxxxx> writes 
Whilst it is true that rec.games.board is receiving less postings I
don't think it is for the reason Chirstopher stated.


Actually I didn't discuss why people had moved, only to where. Now I
may be wrong about that - I haven't tracked the specific people who
used to be here - but I'd be very surprised to discover anywhere other
than the Geek where there's a comparable number of postings that
could have been on rec.games.board, but aren't. For example (and
this really is the first game I chose - one selected to be reasonably
popular, but not a "top ten") there are about 100 postings on
Traders of Genoa on the Geek (that excludes pictures, translations,
mentions on Geeklists and other more permanent material). Probably
difficult to collect such a statistic anywhere else, but that's rather a
lot for just one game for rec.games.board even at its height.

What is more, I
don't feel it is a bad thing.


Again, all I expressed a view on is the interface (which I stand by).
On the wider question of content - it all depends what you want.

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Christopher Dearlove
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