Re: Angband.oook.cz rgra gateway discontinued

Paul J Gans <gans@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Pav Lucistnik <pav@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >I want to inform you that I have closed the web interface to r.g.r.a
and 
> >other r.g.r.~ newsgroups on Angband.oook.cz website. The company 1)
that 
> >was providing my ISP with the usenet feed got bought out by a
competitor 
> >and the feed ceased to work.
> 
> >If anyone could arrange a non-binary, free of charge newsfeed for my
ISP, 
> >I would be very grateful.

news.astraweb.com will give you 25G for $10.  You or they will shut down
before you ever get close to 25G.  I'd pay it myself if they can work
things
through third parties and it seems worth the bother.

> >1) Supernews. Thanks! It was good while it lasted.
> 
> Thanks.  Sad news.  Why do I feel that the lights are slowly
> going out all over the net?

It seems inevitable.  The civ newsgroups are dead.  Everything moved to
fora.

I've received emails from people with questions who knew about the
newsgroup
but were unwilling to use it.

It may be time to give up.  Splitting the community is bad, and there is
more
activity at oook than here.  Web fora suck, but there comes a time when
you
have to acknowledge that the format war has been lost and it is time to
switch
to the markedly inferior technology.


Eddie