Re: BINGO PINBALL FORUM

On Jul 21, 8:25 pm, mars...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Marston) wrote:
In article <9f1e5289-e50a-4fc1-90a2-36ab1a4d4...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Smith Richmond VA  <Cabi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,
...
Hugh's forum has so much already it would be sad if it were lost for
good.
... this idea hit me as the easiest way to
archive that info after noticing my first RGP post is still out here
from back in November 2001 =85 not sure how long RGP stuff will remain
out here though.
Steve Smith

There could be more archives of r.g.p "out there" that are privately kept..
Anyone could be taking an r.g.p feed and not expiring the articles.

I think you are still proposing something that would take some work:
if this hypothetical r.g.p.bingo newsgroup were formed, then you would
get what Hugh had saved, select the postings worth retransmitting, and
submit those as articles to the new newsgroup? I think it's actually
not too hard to start a newsgroup on one machine, populate it with a
bunch of articles with their original timestamps etc., then open it to
the rest of the Internet and let new articles build on that base. The
work would be in getting the newsgroup chartered and voted upon, and
whatever culling is needed on the archive.

How have you been getting value from archived articles in the past?
Is it just by doing a full-text search on old forum postings?
Should the material be better organized?
--
................David Marston       at MV

You’re scaring me David.
A little attention now and then is okay ... kind of like checking and
posting here on RGP and at Old Binger. If i could set aside enough
time for making web stuff I'd be fretting about working on the pins I
have that need restoring. ...

I used the bingo forum a lot. It was nice to access tips without
bugging anyone plus you'd pick up some cool tid-bit factoids missed
before.

Wait a minuet ... are your trying to sell us some web development
services??

Steve Smith

Richmond VA
.

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