On Apr 3, 6:43 am, pete m <pmac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 11:36 am, Eddie Grove <eddiegr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
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> > Paul J Gans <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > > Pav Lucistnik <p...@[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.
>
> Yah, I try to post my interesting posts here, and my trivia questions
> & bug re****ts at the forum, but it seems like that's not working. The
> trouble is, the newbies go to the forum, and they generate by far the
> most posts. Of course, most of those posts are pretty formulaic. What
> race/class/stats should I choose? What weapon ditto? How do you get to
> stat gain? ...
Which makes me wonder why the Angband FAQ has gone unmaintained for so
long...
Pav, regards the groups. Is this going to cause link breakage if we've
linked to any angband.oook.cz rgra posts? I've tended to do this on my
blog - let me know and I'll go through and do a tentative refresh
pointing to the same post on Google Groups.
Regards,
Andrew Doull
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