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Signing off USENET

LSJ

12/29/2010 1:14:00 AM

With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
there.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-the-eternal-stru...
53 Answers

Peter D Bakija

12/29/2010 1:27:00 AM

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On Dec 28, 8:14 pm, LSJ <vtes...@white-wolf.com> wrote:
> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
> I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
> there.
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-the-eterna......

Well, I guess that's that then.

How's the new VEKN discussion forum coming together? I suppose we
could all just migrate over there. I realize that BGG has the
advantage of having visibility for people who aren't already drinking
the kool-aid, but personally, I really dislike the interface and
flashing adds and whatnot.

-Peter

salem

12/29/2010 2:13:00 AM

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LSJ wrote:

> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
> I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
> there.
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-th...
struggle/rules

and that's just the sort of push i needed to get signed up there.

account created, vtes section bookmarked, forum thread rss feeds added to my
blackberry's rss rader. :)

--
salem
(replace 'hotmail' with 'gmail' to email)

Jeff Kuta

12/29/2010 5:05:00 AM

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On Dec 28, 5:14 pm, LSJ <vtes...@white-wolf.com> wrote:
> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
> I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
> there.
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-the-eterna......

May we ask why? New Year's Resolution? Tech change that makes it less
palatable? Changing role wrt VTES?

Jeff

Alf

12/29/2010 8:19:00 AM

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>> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
>May we ask why?

That's exactly what I'd have asked too. And in addition:

Is BGG as reliable, archiveable, searcheable and universally
accessable like USENET uses to be?

This kind of feels like a bad sign to me. Marks an end of an era,
even.
<big exhale>

Cheers
Alf
<insert clever quotation here>

Jozxyqk

12/29/2010 11:08:00 AM

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LSJ <vtesrep@white-wolf.com> wrote:
> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
> I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
> there.

> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-the-eternal-stru...

Not even via Google Groups?

Sad news indeed; the way Usenet does threading in discussions, with
such a variety of front-end views, is unmatched. Finding any official
rulings on BGG, as much as I love the site, is going to be difficult.

I guess this leaves floppyzedolfin as the definitive source of information
on the newsgroup...

Will you still be reachable over email for questions? Are they letting you
keep the "vtesrep" address?

salem

12/29/2010 12:12:00 PM

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Jozxyqk wrote:

> LSJ <vtesrep@white-wolf.com> wrote:
>> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
>> I'll still be on boardgamegeek, so feel free to post rules questions
>> there.
>
>> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31522/vampire-th...
struggle/rules
>
> Not even via Google Groups?

this question strikes me as odd. I guess Scott's situation might be that he
doesn't want to bother with running newsreader software anymore, but I
suspect it's more just to do with consolidating where he spends his time,
and if he's already at BGG for other stuff, he may as well stick to that for
VTES. suggesting he might use a non-optimal way to interface with this
usenet group instead of a better method (newsreader) seems to miss the
point.

> Sad news indeed; the way Usenet does threading in discussions, with
> such a variety of front-end views, is unmatched. Finding any official
> rulings on BGG, as much as I love the site, is going to be difficult.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/spsearch.php?objectid=2122&objecttype=thing&q=&searcha....
+Scott+Johnson%22&forumid=66&searchfield=all&displayresults=excerpt&B1=Submit

Use the 'search' button while in the 'rules' sub-forum of the vtes forum.
Put "L. Scott Johnson" in the username field.

Although I do love usenet, the searchability is more google's doing than
usenet being cool. You could probably search BGG using a custom google
search too. eg: If I want to find rulings on 'weapon' at BGG just put all
this in to google:

site:boardgamegeek.com "L. Scott Johnson" "Vampire: The Eternal Struggle"
weapon

could do a little mix and matching to pull results from both the usenet
group and BGG with a little bit of effort. Someone might even be nice enough
to put together a webscript to do it all and all you have to do is enter the
keywords for the ruling you're looking for.

--
salem
(replace 'hotmail' with 'gmail' to email)

LSJ

12/29/2010 12:30:00 PM

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On Dec 29, 3:18 am, Alf <tree.beard.DO.NOT.SPAM...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> With 2011, I'll no longer be reading this (or any other) USENET group.
> >May we ask why?
>
> That's exactly what I'd have asked too. And in addition:
>
> Is BGG as reliable, archiveable, searcheable and universally
> accessable like USENET uses to be?

Yes,
Yes,
Yes,
and moreso, yes.

It also has less spam, more signal, and admins to cut down on the
flaming trolls.

Jozxyqk

12/29/2010 1:04:00 PM

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salem <kellahan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Although I do love usenet, the searchability is more google's doing than
> usenet being cool.

I wasn't talking so much about searchability, as threadability.
BGG discussions are difficult to branch off into tangential interesting
topics that end up leading to rulings unrelated to the original question,
which happens all the time on the newsgroup.

I'm sure we'll survive.
I'm just resistant to change.
Get off my lawn.

Alf

12/29/2010 1:42:00 PM

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On 29 Dez., 14:04, Jozxyqk <jfeue...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote:

> I'm sure we'll survive.
> I'm just resistant to change.
> Get off my lawn.

ya know, there's a new cool lawn, just over there :-)

-Alf

Peter D Bakija

12/29/2010 2:11:00 PM

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On Dec 29, 8:04 am, Jozxyqk <jfeue...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote:
> I'm sure we'll survive.
> I'm just resistant to change.
> Get off my lawn.

Yeah, I just went over there to poke around based on this discussion,
and man, it is slow and flashy and klunky and each page open takes a
significant amount of time to open. I don't know that I can stomach
the interface.

VEKN discussion forum? Anyone?

-Peter