This mailing list seems to be on the queue for deletion.  This message
will forestall that for a couple of months but the next time I get a warning,
I plan to let it go.

It was one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time:
create a list to serve as a catch-all for all those CCGs which weren't
popular enough themselves to have a list.  But people probably relate
to CCGs on their mailing lists either individually or not at all.  Also, the
notions of general "CCG events", such as conventions dedicated only
to CCGs, seems to have wound up on the junk heap.  In any event,
the list never got used for such things.

Since it doesn't seem to have found any other purpose (other than
as a target for dating service messages seen and rejected by me
alone), good riddance, I guess.

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Yeah.  It's so easy to create a group or mailing list for any particular game that people could do that rather than wade through messages for games they don't play.  Plus, it didn't take long for the CCG industry to shake out such that the population of people who played a wide range of CCGs declined into insignificance.  Then, I haven't seen any CCG conventions since Manafest converted to more general gaming and later turned into Kublacon.

 

At best, this group was a way for Bay Area people to say "hey, I play X and was wondering if anyone else did", but living CCGs usually have places where you could ask that to find players local to yourself.  Sure, if anyone wanted to play Ultimate Combat!, this might be the only place I notice, but we pretty much stopped marketing this group and we weren't likely to hit the people who could have used it the most since the more motivated people could just Google for info or whatever.