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Author:Godzilla
Posted:Mar 23, 2011 at 6:17 am
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It is certainly true that emails can be heavily edited before forwarding. I've been in the Diplomacy community long enough that I used to play by mail (gasp!), and it is perhaps from that forum that my aversion to mail-passing stems. Because in that format, of course, a letter passed on, in one's own handwriting, was extremely damning.

This message is in reply to post 20004:

As a long time F2F player, I have never understood the problem that the email community has with forwarding email. I have always taken it just as I would someone telling me what another player is saying. The tangible artifact of the email is so easily edited that it is almost valueless.

Which, IMO, makes it a particularly poor tactic when used against good players, who will recognize it for what it is -- an attempt to gain influence that isn't based on the merit of the speaker, but on the (supposed) bad behavior of someone else.

There are 13 Messages in this Thread:


Forwarding e-mails (pedros) Mar 20, 06:28 am

Forwarding e-mails (Godzilla) Mar 20, 08:34 am

Forwarding e-mails (fencertim) Mar 20, 10:31 am

Forwarding e-mails (DancingQueen) Mar 22, 03:32 pm

Forwarding e-mails (Godzilla) Mar 23, 06:17 am

Forwarding e-mails (pedros) Mar 23, 06:33 am

Forwarding e-mails (Godzilla) Mar 23, 09:15 am

Forwarding e-mails (Blueraider0) Mar 23, 11:03 am

Forwarding e-mails (Godzilla) Mar 23, 12:23 pm

Forwarding e-mails (rodtheworm) Mar 24, 05:22 pm

Forwarding e-mails (FlapJack) Mar 26, 02:42 am

Forwarding e-mails (FuzzyLogic) Mar 23, 12:13 pm

Forwarding e-mails (sgttodd) Mar 31, 10:02 am

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