 In 1986, play-by-email was a nascent service only being offered by the largest PBM companies.Rick Loomis of Flying Buffalo Games stated in 1985 that the "Nuts & Bolts of PBM" (first called "Nuts & Bolts of Starweb") was the first PBM magazine not published by a PBM company.The name changed to "Nuts & Bolts of Gaming" and it eventually went out of print.