Strategy Wiki's NetHack entry

[Kent Paul Dolan]

This may have been mentioned before, but if so, I
missed it.

Besides WikiHack,

http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

a second Wikipedia-style resource for NetHack (and
probably one needing/open-to inputs from
well-informed participants here), is the Strategy
Wiki NetHack section:

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/NetHack

The above NetHack subtree is a single branch off a
much larger tree covering strategies for thousands
of computer games.

FWIW

xanthian.

[Jorgen Grahn]

["Followup-To:" header set to rec.games.roguelike.nethack.]

Thanks. But call me old-fashioned; I still think it's more fun to
discuss strategy here.

/Jorgen

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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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[Kent Paul Dolan]

Jorgen Grahn wrote:

> ["Followup-To:" header set to
> rec.games.roguelike.nethack.]

You weren't under any obligation to crosspost to
misc.misc just because I did/do. That's my own
private habit with an attached agenda.

I'm just usually too disinterested to create a
"Followup-To:" header myself, on the basis that
everyone is responsable anyway for checking where
s/he is posting before sending an article to the
Usenet server.

Malicious crossposting that's been ongoing on Usenet
for at least 25 years makes that habit of making
sure you are not crossposting where you don't mean
to be crossposting, a mandatory part of sanely
participating in Usenet.

xanthian.

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Mon, 2009-11-16, Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>
> > ["Followup-To:" header set to
> > rec.games.roguelike.nethack.]
>
> You weren't under any obligation to crosspost to
> misc.misc just because I did/do. That's my own
> private habit with an attached agenda.

Good that I wasn't obliged, because I didn't.

My newsreader inserts that text you quote above. I chose to retain it
because it's generally a good idea, and because I know nothing about
your habits or agendas.

> I'm just usually too disinterested to create a
> "Followup-To:" header myself, on the basis that
> everyone is responsable anyway for checking where
> s/he is posting before sending an article to the
> Usenet server.
>
> Malicious crossposting that's been ongoing on Usenet
> for at least 25 years makes that habit of making
> sure you are not crossposting where you don't mean
> to be crossposting, a mandatory part of sanely
> participating in Usenet.

It *should* be, but malicious crossposting still works -- it has
recently damaged some nice, low-traffic groups I care about.
The attackers may be fewer now than in the late 1990s, but there
are fewer islands of sanity to target, too.