It's difficult in online play to impersonate anyone else. The websites have power-to-power messaging, and even when you message everyone (known as Public Press on Playdiplomacy) it comes up with your power's name. But elsewhere, impersonating another player, or even a GM, is possible. Press Press, in Diplomacy, is when players send messages. When playing on a website you will be able to send messages to players directly. This isn't really press although a couple of websites count it as this. Usually, press is seen as being messages to be published to all players. It origninated in postal games; when players submitted orders they would submit press which would be published alongside those orders. There were three types: white press, grey press and black press. White Press This is press where the player sending it is identified. In the postal game, each power was issued with a standard ID, or dateline , which might be the name of the p...
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