play by electronic mail

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play by electronic mail - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  play by electronic mail
  PBEM
  
     <games> A kind of game where the players use electronic mail
     to communicate.  This may be done via a human moderator or
     an automatic mailing list exploder 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.
  
     (http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbm.html).  Usenet
     newsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.
  
     (1994-10-27)