[pbmserv] Broadcast from bugmenot via PBM Server

[pbmserv@gamerz.net]

Hi everyone!

I'm sending out another reminder that the Othello tournament's 
signups are still open. The tournament will start somewhere in 
mid-June, the exact date is TBD.

Just a refresher on the rules:

For this tournament, players will be placed in pools of 
approximately 6 players, and will play each other double 
round-robin within that group. The game time limit will be 14 days 
per move, with nags every 7 days.

The winners of the pools will continue to Round 2, where they all 
play in one big pool double round-robin for the championship.

That's all!

To sign up, contact me using one of the following methods:

1) Preferred Method: contact me by sending mail to 
pbmserv@gamerz.net with "message username password bugmenot" in the 
subject line (replacing username and password with yours) and your 
message in the body. In this case you do not have to tell me your 
PBeM username as it is automatically provided to me, plus there are 
no worries about your messages getting caught in my EXTREMELY 
strict spam filter (see more below).

2) contact me via email at bugmenot@mailpanda.com. I have a very 
strict spam filter though I would turn it off if I could, or at 
least set it to send spam to a Spam folder, but I can't do that, 
any email from many domains including many free email domains is 
bounced back to you with a message saying that the spam filter 
didn't like your message; you can ask to get your domain off the 
blacklist if it's on and my mail provider usually does so if you 
ask, but it takes time, so it's not preferred. Please do not 
contact me by this method if you dont' have to.

3) contact me via the message systems of the other game sites I 
play at, if you really want to do so. Here is the list of my 
usernames at other games sites, listed in order of most likely to 
reach me the quickest:

-GoldToken.com username is newguy
-DailyGammon.com username is newguy1 but messages have 80 characters limit
-BrainKing.com username is bugmenot
-Pocket-Monkey.com username is newguy
---Anything below here might take a while to reach me---
-BugCafe.net username is newguy, I dont' check my messages there often
-ItsYourTurn.com username is myaccount, but I only get to check my 
account there every few days CONTACTING ME THERE FOR THIS 
TOURNAMENT IS WORSE THAN CONTACTING ME VIA PRIVATE EMAIL AS IT 
CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR BOTH YOU AND ME, NOT JUST YOU
-Pente.net username is bugmenot, but they have no internal message 
system so you can only tell me if you're already playing a game 
with me using the in-game chat feature.

If you contact me via the PBeM server message system, your username 
is automatically provided to me; any other method, you must provide 
your PBeM server username (but please don't give me your password, 
as some have made the mistake of doing!) And please, remember to 
tell me your signing up for the Othello tourney!

That's all, folks!

Sincerely,
bugmenot/newguy