Re: Amnesia effect after loading a game?

jistanidiot@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Topi Why don't you get a newsreader that will properly thread by
>subject. That way you'll have the entire conversation and you won't
>flood this group with a bunch of stupid messages. It is the 21st
>century you can certaintly find a modern newsreader or you could try
>some place like http://groups.google.com

I'm using version 3.6 of trn. This is an eleven-year-old version of a
newsreader that's considerably older still. I'm using it because I've
yet to encounter a "modern" (by which you doubtless mean "possessed of
a graphical user interface that makes simple tasks trivial and complex
tasks impossible") newsreader with a user interface that I actually
find pleasant to use. Google Groups is good as an Usenet archive
retrieval tool for much the same reason that Google is a good WWW
search engine, but it's a shoddy interface for reading current news,
and it's an *awful* news posting agent.

Quoting for context is a practical courtesy to other users; it permits
them to see the particular points to which you are responding, without
having to faff about looking at other posts which may or may not
have arrived at their site. Now, in the case of the newsreader I use,
reading an article's immediate parent is a simple case of pressing
left-arrow - but that's a break in the flow of reading.

Usenet propagation delays aren't quite as long as they used to be,
but it remains the case that something like the following can happen:

Heidi Sanchez, posting from the university network at Berkeley, posts a
question.

Reginald Fortescue-Smythe, in Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire, England,
sees Heidi's question, and posts a reply.

Nikolai Antonov, in Arkhangelsk, sees both of these posts, and posts a
reply to Reginald's post.

Kusagawa Noriko, reading the group from a cybercafe in Kyoto, sees all
three posts, and replies to Nikolai.

Heidi may receive Noriko's post before she receives Reginald's. If
Noriko and Nikolai both quote for context, she may well be able to get
some useful information even before Reginald's post arrives.

In any event, I applaud the panache with which you live up to the
localpart of your e-mail address.
--
Martin Read - my opinions are my own. share them if you wish.
\_\/_/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mpread/dungeonbash/
\ / "tempted white eyes blinded by the night hollow like the towers from the
\/ inside laura's a machine she's burning insane" fields of the nephilim
.

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