Re: Decline of OKBridge reply

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lex Spoon 
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> This leads to a new hard question: how to design the rooms so that
> different people will join different rooms.  The Yahoo way of using
> skill level doesn't work at all, and isn't enough even if it were
> (1600 / 4 is still a ton of people, and BBO gets more popular all the
> time!).
>
> Arbitrary names should do better.  For the geeks, you could have rooms
> based on vi versus Emacs or Linux versus FreeBSD.  For the couch
> potatoes, you could have a room for each Survivor character.  You
> could even have bridge preferences, like Psychaholics and Four Card
> Majors.  Anything should work.

Maybe this is a stupid idea, but it seems obvious to me - why not have 
rooms named for the systems used in them?  If I ever use a bridge 
server, I will look for an "Acol" room, rather than reading up on SAYC 
before I join a game.

Nick
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