• Very interesting, Steve. I somehow missed this post when it first appeared, very glad the third article was featured in the news letter. I used to work for a play-by-mail game company and always wanted to learn how it worked "beneath the layers", so to speak. Personally, I design card games (and publish one) and use MS Access as the repository, but that's not an interactive system.

    I'm really looking forward to your future articles. Oh, and the word is "encounter", not "incounter". Sorry, I'm married to a Grammar Nazi. 😀

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