Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:43:17 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:43:18 -0500 Message-ID: <8lnmjj1qfifg8dht3eq5qgdouqvg2dek4i@4ax.com> References: <432c32961d25d0e649fedb4aedbcf520abdba15f@i2pn2.org> <09jhjj18ilvlokctkrtjjaeiav80hld9l4@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 70 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-kYqmbda8TEoBtYjqSIsMNtUq0PPCITwz0GN1vJidljqB8xXTQ8jlUBnlHewtksxmM0F/J31BnqXVbJh!/DIXGnESChmkCgYF1zNrEyUKkdH+dJ0qtAQu2FniPKvMIRb6BWn7tAQVEv8Kmw8C+KqfstG+ X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3229 On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:06:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:03:45 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >> >Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :( >> It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-) >Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-) > >Ugh. See, this is why I miss DejaNews. Heck, Google Groups could in its >early days before it got worse. And why does https://groups.google.com >require me to log in? Frak that. Google was always awful in comparison to Deja News, and only got worse as the years rolled on. But it got terrible once they rolled Usenet into their whole Groups interface; it polluted both streams and I don't think it made users of either platform happier for the intersection. Still, I was surprised to see how much spam was on c.s.i.p.g.action, according to Google. Almost all of that got filtered server-side for me and it was rare that any snuck through so it actually ended up on my client. Of course, Google could have filtered it too, but I guess since most of it was /coming/ from Google groups users, that might have been a conflict of interest. Narkive is pretty good, although I do wish they had the ability to better locate articles. The lack is forgivable though, since that would likely require a lot more CPU and bandwidth, and I suspect the site is already run on a shoestring. >> * not actually a spreadsheet >Oh, you pecker. :P Would it make you feel better if I told you it was a five-gigabyte MS Access database?* ;-) * I don't actually use a database either. If you must know, it's all just a bunch of plain text files stored in a ZIP** archive. ** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-)