Re: hhhmmmm.... Ads on rec.games.pbm

From: graeme@discreet.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In <19970603133101.JAA08045@ladder02.news.aol.com> soliiigm@aol.com
    (Sol III GM) writes:

>  Ok, I think I might be stirring a bad pot here, based on some of the
>comments I have been seeing.  You folks are going to have to excuse me for
>that, but although I have been in this business for over 8 years, all of
>it PBeM, I have generally tended to ignore this newsgroup.
>  Why?
>  Well, that's easy.
>  Mr. Lindahl.

Huh ? Not one statement below explains this summary. Why is Greg putting you
off this group ? We could get him a paper bag ... (sorry Greg ;-)

[Meandering, pensive discussion deleted]

>  Now, the question is, what can be done to fix the problem?

Well first identify a problem. Theres plenty of traffic here, although I
will admit there could be more but thats Usenet for you.

You mention that the AOL group gets more traffic than r.g.p.
There are probably more AOL users than Usenet users. AOL users get their
hands held round the vaguaries of the AOL intranet whereas us hardy
Usenetters are on our own (and on Usenet not only can they hear you scream
but they all take the p*ss too).

So r.g.p is quiet, beats the hell out of a hugely full group where you miss
90% of the info in the noise. I fully expected this group to be split by now
(so please, nobody bet on any of my predictions :-) because of the huge
number of posts for certain games but I'm glad it hasn't had to.

I have to admit to only reading the Galaxy traffic, which is low, and the
occasional general post but there seems to be enough traffic to call this an
active newsgroup.

So, whats the problem ?

And stop picking on Greg... ;-)

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hhhmmmm.... Ads on rec.games.pbm
soliiigm@aol.com (Sol III GM)
Tue, 03 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000