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Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:33:38 -0800
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On 11/18/2024 6:42 PM, Ant wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:06:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> 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?* ;-)
> 
> Geez. Big.
> 
> 
>> * 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.
> 
> 5 GB of text files? Impressive. I am also an old school basic text files
> too.
> 
> 
>> ** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-)
> 
> How big in total decompressed?

3 bytes.

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