Why is this group so empty?

Mark Johnson

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Jul 19, 1994, 10:27:56 PM7/19/94

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In article <SIMONIS.15...@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl>,
Kris <SIM...@stpc.wi.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote:
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>Did I miss sumthing? When I first started reading this group it was always
>full of stuff now, it's more or less empty, what's going on?

Part of it is probably due to the fact that the last release (and bug
fix) was put out a year ago. The volume of the group seems to explode
whenever there's something new to talk about.

Another reason is that it's the middle of summer, and a lot of folks get
access through school, so when they're not in school... :-)

The new school year will probably bring back a lot of people, and they'll
introduce a flock of newbies, and they'll ask a *lot* of questions. <G>

Mark

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Ken Arromdee

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Jul 19, 1994, 11:24:52 PM7/19/94

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In article <Ct7w6...@amiserv.chi.il.us>, Mark Johnson <ma...@xnet.com> wrote:
>>Did I miss sumthing? When I first started reading this group it was always
>>full of stuff now, it's more or less empty, what's going on?
>Part of it is probably due to the fact that the last release (and bug
>fix) was put out a year ago. The volume of the group seems to explode
>whenever there's something new to talk about.

Um, no, the reason is that it's replaced with rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
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Trevor Bradley

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Jul 20, 1994, 3:00:15 PM7/20/94

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ma...@xnet.com (Mark Johnson) writes:

>In article <SIMONIS.15...@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl>,
>Kris <SIM...@stpc.wi.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote:
>>
>>Did I miss sumthing? When I first started reading this group it was always
>>full of stuff now, it's more or less empty, what's going on?

>Part of it is probably due to the fact that the last release (and bug
>fix) was put out a year ago. The volume of the group seems to explode
>whenever there's something new to talk about.

>Another reason is that it's the middle of summer, and a lot of folks get
>access through school, so when they're not in school... :-)

>The new school year will probably bring back a lot of people, and they'll
>introduce a flock of newbies, and they'll ask a *lot* of questions. <G>

Not likely, since the group wil get deleted on Sept 9th.
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Stephen White

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Jul 20, 1994, 7:03:11 AM7/20/94

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ma...@xnet.com (Mark Johnson) writes:

>In article <SIMONIS.15...@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl>,
>Kris <SIM...@stpc.wi.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote:
>>
>>Did I miss sumthing? When I first started reading this group it was always
>>full of stuff now, it's more or less empty, what's going on?

>Part of it is probably due to the fact that the last release (and bug
>fix) was put out a year ago. The volume of the group seems to explode
>whenever there's something new to talk about.

>Another reason is that it's the middle of summer, and a lot of folks get
>access through school, so when they're not in school... :-)

>The new school year will probably bring back a lot of people, and they'll
>introduce a flock of newbies, and they'll ask a *lot* of questions. <G>

But the main reason is because the group has been moved to
rec.games.roguelike.nethack

Stephen White
swh...@cs.mun.ca

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