Former GENIEite
I was on GENIE back in about 1989. I had played a couple of ftf SL games but was intrigued by this monster game called ASL. Not a monster in the Europa series way but a monster nonetheless. I moved and lost my gaming buddies but found a group on GENIE. I tried to play a couple of games using real PBEM but my opponents would disappear. My last PBEM game was Guryev's HQ with Dominic. I didn't quite get what was going on in the game (some things never change) but we struggled through. Through GENIE, I found a local guy to play ftf. He was a very nice guy but didn't have the right constitution for a newbie. He'd throw the dice, announce a 2MC. Roll the dice a few more times and then announce that my wonderful stack was now gone. He went so fast with no explanations that my head was swimming. After this episode and the encroachment of real life, I gave up ASL for almost 15 years but never got rid of the modules or rules.
Thanks to VASL, I'm back, I'm enjoying it, and I am eagerly assisting all of my opponents in their quest for ladder points. Thank you Rodney Kinney et al.