Re: What did we do before spielfrieks?

Gotta mention Rick Thornquist's time at the helm as well.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:28 PM Jacob Lee [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I used to subscribe to Boardgamenews (BGN) run by Eric W. Martin before he
> came over to BGG.  I loved it.  I think Eric was a one man show operating
> that website and the quality of writing there was the best among all the
> board game sites I frequented.
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> Jacob
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> On 23 July 2018 at 10:00, Brent Mair [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> I played Catan and El Grande in 1998 and found both BoardGameGeek and
>> Spielfrieks soon after they were created in 2000, but I'm trying to
>> remember what information was available on the web prior to 2000. What
>> websites were used and what other places? I slightly remember
>> rec.board.games or rec.games.board or something like that but I don't
>> remember what it was.
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>> Where did we find our translations?
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>> Also, if there is an article or info about when Jay first brought the
>> games over for Mayfair, that would be interesting to me.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Brent Mair
>> - Spielguy
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