"SIMMing"? like aysynchronous remote role playing?

[Darren Dirt]

Often I thought it would be fun to join some of youz guyz to play D&D, or even just to observe... But it appears there's a new way of RPGing that takes advantage of the Internets etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simming

as an example:
http://ussdevestator.bravohost.org/SMS/index.php?pageref=introduction

So have any of ya thought of doing something like that? Using your creative imaginations and love of character development (plus hatred of Mr. Analog's arbitrary malice ) and doing an ongoing story online or something?

I'm prolly crazy thinking anyone except ubergeeks would actually be interested in doing something like that...

Simming is an online text-based role-playing game that takes place in a chat room, by e-mail or on an Internet forum. Individual games, known as sims, read like a story -- albeit one written by several people.

People who participate in sims are known as simmers or players, and are usually attracted to the game by a love of writing, the ability to develop characters, and the freedom of imagination offered by simming.

I guess the bolded stuff is why it really "jumped out" at me, personally. :-\

PS: considering the use of IRC and other chat services, I guess it's not necessarily "asynchronous", so even more analogous to D&D with its live spontaneous adventures etc.

And apparently experienced "simmers" (who can help the newbs get started, i.e. as "SIM masters") can be found relatively easily http://www.simmingleague.com/cms/page.php?1

[Mr. Analog]

My malice is so well planned in advance the PCs don't know if it's me or bad luck (muah ha ha ha!).

[Thorin]

Yeah, thought about it, but people too frequently have spelling/grammatical mistakes that disrupt my suspension of disbelief, at which time I realize I'd rather be hanging out with real people.  Plus, no rolling dice or using tactics?  Those are still attractive features of pen-and-paper role-playing games, to me.