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)