General roleplaying discussion happens in GAMERS. We also host a couple of system-specific groups - check the full Discussion Group category.
Looking for a game to play or watch? Check the Games category. If you'd like to run a game, drop a line to silver@phoenyx.net. (During the software upgrade, automatic group creation is turned off.)
The Phoenyx has been receiving a lot of spam backscatter (see the Wikipedia explanation) lately, meaning our domain name and sometimes working email addresses have been forged on spams. Generally, there's nothing we can do about this - they're not originating from our server, someone's just sticking our return address on it.
There is one exception: if you're using a challenge/response system, your challenge is spamming me. I will respond affirmatively to it. Because hey: you're effectively pestering strangers to do your spam filtering for you. Here's another explanation, and another. Challenge/response is just plain a bad idea.
More pdates are posted to the "news" group, which you can read on the web here.