SFB Discussion Groups

There is lots of discussion around the Net regarding SFB. There are several web-based forums which you can reach, including:

Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: This is the "official" discussion board, with occaisional input from the designers. It is very active and covers a wide range of topics.
Mark J. Means' SFB Web-Based BBS: A less active single-topic board, which still has regular usage.
Mark J. Means' SFB Web-Based BBS#2: A less active group but which is split up into more dedicated topics (Early Years, for example) and which has more features.
Dejanews: rec.games.board: This is a general UseNet board games discussion group, using DejaNews to filter and archive. SFB discussion is rare but occaisionally comes up.
WebRPG's SFB Forum
Unofficial Mailing List (archives and subscription): This is the new unofficial mailing list, run by Alex Fulton via onelist.com. It replaced an earlier unofficial list run by Robert Schirmer.
Archives of Robert Schirmer's Mailing List

Email Listserv

On email, there is an unofficial mailing list run by Alex Fulton for SFB as well as F&E and Prime Directive. There were other mailing lists, but they are now obselete. The official mailing list run by ADB has been dead for a long time. The unofficial list run by Robert Schirmer is being replaced by Alex's automated listserv.

You can subscribe by email by sending to the following accounts:

StarFleetUniverse-subscribe@onelist.com: To subscribe to the list.
StarFleetUniverse-unsubscribe@onelist.com: To unsubscribe from the list.
StarFleetUniverse-digest@onelist.com: To switch your subscription to digest mode.
StarFleetUniverse-normal@onelist.com: To switch your subscription to normal mode.

Non-Internet Online Forums

There are two possibilities here:

The GEnie network is where ADB originally connected, and in the past ADB was very active there with downloads of official playtest material and real-time conferences with staffers. I am unsure of the present status. SFB is Category 10, page 805, in the Games Roundtable.
You can call GEnie at 800-638-9636 for more information.
CompuServe also has a connection to ADB. You can contact ADB at 71333,2123 and TFG at 76443,3031. You will find messages in Section 13 of the PBM/Board/Card Games Forum. Erratta and playtest material are in the libraries.
To get on line, call 800-524-3388 and ask for Representative #437 for a free introductory membership.

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John H. Kim <jhkim@fnal.gov>

Last modified: Thu Jun 22 12:35:56 2000

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