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Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...

From candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...
Date 2024-11-20 17:50 +0000
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:43 this Monday (GMT):
> 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:
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>>> >Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :(
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>>> It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-)
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>>Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-)
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>>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.
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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>>> * not actually a spreadsheet
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>>Oh, you pecker. :P
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> Would it make you feel better if I told you it was a five-gigabyte MS
> Access database?* ;-)
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> * 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. 
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> ** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-)


That's a lot of data!
Also, I think https://newsgrouper.org.uk/ has some historic archives
too.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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1st HL2 game memories from 2004... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-16 03:31 +0000
  Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-11-16 06:11 -0800
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-16 11:04 -0500
      Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-16 12:01 -0500
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-17 01:03 +0000
          Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-17 10:42 -0500
            Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-18 01:06 +0000
              Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-18 10:43 -0500
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-19 02:42 +0000
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-18 22:33 -0800
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-19 12:35 -0500
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-20 17:50 +0000
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-20 13:36 -0500
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-11-22 03:02 +0000
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-17 11:46 +0000
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-17 11:45 +0000
  Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-20 17:50 +0000
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-20 13:38 -0500
      Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-20 22:00 +0000
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Jhulian Waldby <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2024-11-20 18:35 -0600
          Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-21 22:00 +0000
            Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Jhulian Waldby <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2024-11-22 01:06 -0600
              Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-22 20:50 +0000
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Jhulian Waldby <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2024-11-25 14:03 -0600
      Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-21 09:15 +0000
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Jhulian Waldby <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2024-11-21 05:15 -0600
  Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-22 15:34 -0600
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-23 11:42 +0000
      Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-23 11:36 -0500
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-23 13:26 -0600
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-25 10:09 +0000
          Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-25 13:22 -0600
            Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-26 08:27 +0000
              Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-26 07:25 -0800
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-27 09:59 +0000
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-27 07:30 -0800
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-27 16:53 -0500
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-27 18:25 -0800
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 10:51 -0500
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-11-28 09:22 -0800
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-28 09:20 +0000
                Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-28 09:17 +0000
    Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-11-23 07:02 -0500
      Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-23 13:59 -0600
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-23 17:50 -0500
          Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-23 20:03 -0600
        Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-11-24 17:22 -0500
          Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-25 13:56 -0600
            Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-26 08:49 +0000

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