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    From hurst@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 6 17:34:42 2022
    Was wondering what you guys use your servers for? I generaly just use
    mine for playing around with the crazy concepts in communication that I
    like to learn about. I was born after the BBS and usenet days so never
    got to see this stuff in its hayday.

    Ping test who is seeing this seth m 26 usa.

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  • From 8c065a96@21:1/5 to hurst on Sun Aug 7 07:54:39 2022
    On 2022-08-06 5:34 PM, hurst wrote:
    Was wondering what you guys use your servers for?
    I got into Usenet a short while ago largely just because Thunderbird
    happens to support NNTP and I want to use /all/ its features in some
    way. It's good to see that while it's way past its heyday, it's not
    completely dead.

    rec.games.roguelike.nethack is a nice read IMO. Maybe I should actually
    play NetHack and not just watch people talk about NH?

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to 8c065a96@gmx.com on Sun Aug 7 07:59:16 2022
    8c065a96 <8c065a96@gmx.com> writes:

    rec.games.roguelike.nethack is a nice read IMO. Maybe I should actually
    play NetHack and not just watch people talk about NH?

    I never got into Nethack, but I still play Angband from time to time, and
    it's still a great game if one doesn't mind the near-total lack of modern graphics. (Still moderating rec.games.roguelike.announce after all these years.)

    --
    Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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  • From Daniel Goldsmith@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Mon Aug 15 19:28:26 2022
    On 2022-08-07, Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:
    8c065a96 <8c065a96@gmx.com> writes:

    rec.games.roguelike.nethack is a nice read IMO. Maybe I should actually
    play NetHack and not just watch people talk about NH?

    I never got into Nethack, but I still play Angband from time to time, and it's still a great game if one doesn't mind the near-total lack of modern graphics.

    There's also Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, available locally and on servers, sometimes with more modern graphics, oft times not.

    http://crawl.develz.org/

    (Still moderating rec.games.roguelike.announce after all these
    years.)

    That is some dedication, Russ, salut!

    --
    dgold <news@dgold.eu>

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