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MK <none nowhere.com> wrote: 

> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in
> the group to find 265 new posts only. 
> 
> This begs a question - is it just that strategic / turn based is 
> largely dead, or is it the entire Usenet community. 
> 
> Any thoughts what the current equivalent for the csipg.strategic
> would be with a decent signal/noise ratio? 
> 
> I kinda dislike the thought of continuing to pay Usenet (the
> service) 

Then don't.

Bye.

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> for the dubious privilege 
> 
> == antiquated rat ==
> 
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> From: MK <none nowhere.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
> Subject: Away for a bit over a year from csipg.strategic and I see 
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On 4/8/2012 9:54 AM, MK wrote:
> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in the
> group to find 265 new posts only.
>
> This begs a question - is it just that strategic / turn based is
> largely dead, or is it the entire Usenet community.
>
> Any thoughts what the current equivalent for the csipg.strategic would
> be with a decent signal/noise ratio?
>
> I kinda dislike the thought of continuing to pay Usenet (the service)
> for the dubious privilege
>
> == antiquated rat ==

This particular group isn't very active currently but other parts of 
Usenet are still going strong.

MK wrote:

> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in the
> group to find 265 new posts only.
> 
> This begs a question - is it just that strategic / turn based is
> largely dead, or is it the entire Usenet community.
> 
> Any thoughts what the current equivalent for the csipg.strategic would
> be with a decent signal/noise ratio?
> 
> I kinda dislike the thought of continuing to pay Usenet (the service)
> for the dubious privilege
> 
> == antiquated rat ==
Usenet gaming groups are dying, pretty much dead.  Title specific forums 
seemed to have filled in that niche.

I'd point you to the Gamers with Jobs forums for general discussions about 
gaming and threads about genres such as Strat TB.   
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/

I'd recommend getting an account on eternal september and drop any pay for 
usenet accounts.  http://www.eternal-september.org/

On 12/04/2012 9:12 AM, Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> MK wrote:
>> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in the
>> group to find 265 new posts only.
> Usenet gaming groups are dying, pretty much dead.  Title specific forums
> seemed to have filled in that niche.

OTOH that means that typically only old-timers with lots of valuable 
experience post on USENET (with fewer flaming trolls than the web fora, 
as far as I can see).  I still get useful/interesting info from my 
favourite USENET groups.

> I'd recommend getting an account on eternal september and drop any pay for
> usenet accounts.  http://www.eternal-september.org/

Highly recommended!  I switched when my ISP's NNTP support started 
flaking out too regularly.

In article <28g3o7p5kshnr2akrgk68hjjttpirag01k@4ax.com>, 
none@nowhere.com says...
> 
> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in the
> group to find 265 new posts only.
> 
> This begs a question - is it just that strategic / turn based is
> largely dead, or is it the entire Usenet community.
> 
> Any thoughts what the current equivalent for the csipg.strategic would
> be with a decent signal/noise ratio?
> 
> I kinda dislike the thought of continuing to pay Usenet (the service)
> for the dubious privilege
> 
> == antiquated rat ==

It's possible that your nntp server has a short article lifespan set.

But you are probably right, there's pretty little traffic in this 
newsgroup. Maybe because there aren't many decent and interesting new 
strategy games coming out? Or maybe too many of us have hit that 
Alzheimer's age and wandered off with a slightly dazed look on their 
face and not found their way back. What do I know.

I can say that rec.arts.sf.written is still very active, if i go away 
for a week or two I may come back to 2000+ new articles. 
But yes, it's pretty slow in the gaming ngs. {sigh}. Would be nice if 
some decent stuff was published. It seems that all the corporate suits 
are interested in is pushing FPS-style [insert franchise here]#27 and 
don't go in for producing new or innovative things. I on the other hand 
don't care one whit for that fps stuff. Arena was about the last one I 
spent a lot of time with.

-P.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:12:56 -0500, Carl Lundstedt
<clundst@gmail.yeah.com> wrote:

>MK wrote:
>
>> Been largely busy with work and life, pulled the new headers in the
>> group to find 265 new posts only.
>> 
>> This begs a question - is it just that strategic / turn based is
>> largely dead, or is it the entire Usenet community.
>> 
>> Any thoughts what the current equivalent for the csipg.strategic would
>> be with a decent signal/noise ratio?
>> 
>> I kinda dislike the thought of continuing to pay Usenet (the service)
>> for the dubious privilege
>> 
>> == antiquated rat ==
>Usenet gaming groups are dying, pretty much dead.  Title specific forums 
>seemed to have filled in that niche.
>
>I'd point you to the Gamers with Jobs forums for general discussions about 
>gaming and threads about genres such as Strat TB.   
>http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/
>
>I'd recommend getting an account on eternal september and drop any pay for 
>usenet accounts.  http://www.eternal-september.org/
>
>Carl

Thanks Carl -  I only occasionally find myself moved to post, so
should be more than plenty. 

Appreciate all teh other old hands who responded, I am on a decent
service, the usenet is also a business name, its just that it doesnt
seem to serve a useful purpose anymore.