quake/articles/1996/art-110

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From: quinet@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Raphael Quinet)

Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.announce,rec.games.computer.quake.playing,rec.games.computer.quake.servers,rec.games.computer.quake.misc

Subject: Suggestion: cross-posting between r.g.c.q.playing, .servers and .misc until the 15th of June

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Date: 20 May 1996 20:45:33 +0100

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[ followups directed to r.g.c.q.misc ]

The two new Quake groups, rec.games.computer.quake.playing and .servers

passed the Usenet vote successfully and have been created on the 15th of

May by the moderator of news.announce.newgroups.

However, it will take a few weeks before these groups are available

everywhere, because some news administrators do not process the newgroup

control messages automatically and will only create or remove groups when

they read their mail. Although most Usenet sites created the new Quake

groups a few hours after the control message was sent, I understand that

it could take up to a month on some sites.

This is why I am suggesting that, until the 15th of June, all Quake players

who want to post a message to r.g.c.q.playing or r.g.c.q.servers and want

to be sure that most readers will be able to get their article should

cross-post their message to r.g.c.q.misc too. This will ensure that the

articles will be well propagated and thus available to most Quake players.

After one month (or maybe a bit more, if you think this is better), we can

stop cross-posting between r.g.c.q.playing or r.g.c.q.servers and .misc,

because most sites should have created the new groups by then. Thus each

group will have its own topic, which was indeed the reason why the new

groups were created.

This is only a suggestion and you are of course free to start or stop

cross-posting whenever you want, but I think that cross-posting during one

month is the best compromise for propagating the articles while the new

groups are being created and avoiding a duplication of resources once the

groups are available almost everywhere.

For those who don't have the new groups yet, the taglines for the two

additional Quake groups are given below. I suggest that you get in touch

with your news administrator if you still cannot get these groups after a

few days (the e-mail address of your local news admin should be "news",

"newsmaster" or "usenet"). These groups have been created according to

the Usenet guidelines and they passed the Usenet vote (the results were

published on the 10th of May). If your admin wants the charters of these

groups or wants to check the results of the vote, you can show him/her the

official results of the vote, from this URL (includes the charters, etc.):

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.games.computer.quake.playing

rec.games.computer.quake.playing Playing Quake and user-created levels.

rec.games.computer.quake.servers Setup and maintenance of servers.

-Raphael

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