Re: Endless repetition (short&important)

["Rupert G. Goldie" <>]

> > I understand that it is not possible for most people to read all the  
> > messages all the time, but could all the posters please try to read at  
> > least the messages of the last few days before making a new post ?  It  
> > would be a real help for all of us.
> 
> Well, as a systems administrator here at PSU, along with maintaining all of
> our game upgrades, plus quite a few other packages, I get a continual flood
> of mail by which even the crossfire mailing list is made trivial.  I think
> I'd have an easier time of it if we were to move to a newsgroup.  It's
> easier to wade through crossfire all by itself when I'm in the mood for it
> rather than wading through a huge number of unrelated articles.  I don't
> seem to recall any restrictions on running an alt group other than the fact
> that not all sites carry them?  I dunno, just an observation.
> 
> 
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO !

An alt.games.crossfire is going to be worse because there will be much
more low content posting. The mailing list (even though it has been high
volume of late) has a pretty high signal to noise ratio. Also the things
we have been discussing are about game development and it makes more sense
for the developers to discuss them in a mailing list than the sewer of AltNet.

If you want to read crossfire postings separately either get a mail reader
which can auto-file messages for you or redirect them into a local newsgroup.
If you are a sys admin you should have the priviledges to set up a local 
newsgroup. If you want to know how to do it properly send me some mail (and 
please do it properly, otherwise the list administrator is going to get bounces
every time your news system screws up).

As Frank mentioned when this last came up, we will be much better off getting
rec.games.crossfire created rather than making an alt group now and then trying
to switch to a mainstream group later.


Rupert
(who really is working on spell paths in the spare microseconds he can escape
from work)