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Article #784Re: PC.GAMES.RPG IS THE RIGHT GROUP FOR DIABLO!
From: Joe Hendrix
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00
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> There shouldn't be a group for Diablo. GAMES.RPG IS the proper group for Diablo > posting, not the alt.games.diablo group. Why you ask? Because all ALT Usenet > groups are forever, that stupid Diablo group is going to on the Internet for > the rest of eternity cluttering up news servers well after every copy of > Diablo is sitting in closets and junkyards around the country. Alt groups > get low traffic and propagation for just this reason, idiots creating groups > for short fads just because they know how, without thinking of the long term > consequences. A growing number of sysadmins don't even want to deal with the > Alt groups because of this kind of short-sighted stupidity. This group > was created for RPG games, live with it. Create a killfile for Diablo and > SHUT THE HELL UP THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU! > > Scott What the hell? Cluttering up news servers? How much hard drive space does text take up? I could probably fit this entire group on a single floppy. I can download the entire list of newsgroups (all 9000 of them) in under a second. I mean I know its fun to act like an idiot occassionally, but really, grow up. This is worse bullshit than all that talk about scaleability. Ever hear of Moore's Law? -- Joe Hendrix Joe...@mail.utexas.edu ICQ UIN: 321046
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From: "Joe Hendrix" <Joe...@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: PC.GAMES.RPG IS THE RIGHT GROUP FOR DIABLO! Date: 1997/02/17 Message-ID: <01bc1c77$20beea80$212f7481@joe.dorm.utexas.edu> X-Deja-AN: 219278263 References: <5da6f9$i65@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <3300d235.13858621@news.telecom.ptt.nl> <01bc18df$acff08e0$230c6386@tramp.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> <hagieE5prw6.FMH@netcom.com> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.diablo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit