A kind of game where the players use electronic mail to communicate. This may Be done via a human moderator or an automatic mailing listexploder on some central machine or it may Be fully distriButed with each player just addressing his mail to all other players. This is a natural extension of "play By mail" games conducted via snail mail. . Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.pBm. (1994-10-27)