Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:39:29 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CSIPGA Holiday Extravaganza Is Coming Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:39:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-B0Sksn8toSW2Ir5f3WgCOFmnoYXl0xwi1QBEUSZPDM4su9udLrVpowgckvAOMHi11bLyTBVu0PSpGpk!gKkx55Iorc/jLx5CJipx6WkWfsFdUPWgolEAoFiqMydS/Lokd0Sr6JcN6palvbX3aPkzMddF 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: 2517 On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:58:27 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >Woohoo! Are you going to post in our Steam's group too? If I do, it will be secondary. The primary goal... well, one of the primary goals... that is, one of the many goals I am striving for... [Wait, let me start again. I wasn't expecting an Inquisition] One of the reasons behind these give-aways was to drive traffic to CSIPGA on Usenet. That's why I was never incredibly worried about lurkers swiping the keys; if they're getting it, at least it means people are reading the newsgroup. [Although if you are a lurker and grab a key, take it as an opportunity to come and say hi. We won't bite. Well, except for maybe Ant, but they're tiny so you'll barely feel it.] I feel if I only gave the keys out on the Steam forum, it would limit the readership. Free stuff --and the traffic the promise of free stuff generates-- makes the newsgroup look more lively. I like lively. ;-) So if I suspect that if I post to the Steam group, it will mostly be as a pointer back to here. [In case you're wondering, the other goals are to make the holidays more cheerful, and to get rid of all these excess keys I have cluttering up the place. Oh, and its an opportunity for me to sing in public without people chasing me away with torches and pitchforks]