Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!amdahl!drivax!liberato From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.games - what do you think? Message-ID: <256BC276.BAC@drivax.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 89 10:12:05 GMT References: <1982@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <1989Nov20.203141.10603@paris.ics.uci.edu> <74216@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1989Nov21.113250.12142@paris.ics.uci.edu> <32749@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California Lines: 35 mitchell@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Evan Mitchell) writes: >In article <1989Nov21.113250.12142@paris.ics.uci.edu> Joachim Patrick Vance writes: >>... >>I don't think that comp.sys.amiga.games is a bad idea, it just seems >>a waste of net bandwidth to have two newsgroups when one would suffice >>(especially since one already exists). If everyone who wanted to post >>about amiga games did so at rec.games.misc then our problem would be solved. >> >Not necessarily. This is one of the few newsgroups that I read everything >that's posted. Most of the stuff in rec.games.misc is about MS-Dos junk. >... >I think anything that concerns the Amiga (including product anouncements, games, >etc.) should be in this group... I favor Evan's position. Though I hardly ever play games, the amount of game related discussion here does not seem overwhelming. The games I do get are ones that receive high ratings on the net. I think Amiga/AmigaTech is an appropriate split. I would also want to accomodate those who have no interest in how to get past the troll dripping saliva on the 27th level of Victory in Valhala. What about including GAME as a keyword or part of the subject heading so that a kill file can be constructed. Instructions to that effect could be put in the monthly posting. This kind of thing has been hashed around before but if game discussion is becoming bothersome to many here I would be happy to make that small accomodation. By the way, are most of you abandoning rn in favor of nn? If you want to decrease the amount of time spent reading news or increase the number of news groups you can follow, it is a must. Bug your system administrator! -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato