For those of you with an interest in Diplomacy hobby history, I wanted to mention the on-line Postal Diplomacy Zine Archive I have been building, with plenty of help from others like Edi Birsan and Craig Reges.

So far there are over 400 zines scanned and posted in pdf format, ranging in time from Graustark #1 (the very first Diplomacy zine published) through to a few zines from the year 2000 and beyond. You can find hobby historical news, rule debates, classic press, strategy and tactics articles, variants, tons of humor, and all the personality that made the postal hobby such fun...along with some of the arguments which a collection of strong personalities seems to inevitably lead to. And the zines posted there are simply the beginning, as I plan to add literally thousands more in the weeks and months to come.

You can check out the Postal Diplomacy Zine Archive in the Diplomacy section of my personal website at:

http://www.whiningkentpigs.com/DW/

Also, if you'd like to stay updated on what I add to the collection (lately I've made additions every few days), you can join the Yahoo group Postalzine which I created for exactly that purpose at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/postalzine/