[gurps] End of Pyramid newsgroups

[Roger Burton West]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:20:13AM -0600, Bret Indrelee wrote:

>I know that the Pyramid newsgroup took away a lot of activity from the  
>mailing list, but I think that was more a case of staff members not  
>reading both.
>
>I'm not as clear on what you see as an advantage of the newsgroup over  
>the mailing list.

I'm not trying to supplant or replace the mailing list at all; sorry if
I didn't make that clear. I'm trying to replace one closed NNTP service
that's being withdrawn with another closed NNTP service. I'm mentioning
it here simply because, unlike the Pyramid groups, it will not require a
subscription: therefore there may well be people interested in joining
it who read this list but do not have Pyramid subscriptions, and who
therefore won't be aware of the situation.

>Since you are planning to make it closed, Google and  
>other search engines would not bring people to it. The search  
>functions would be limited to the capabilities of NNTP clients and  
>whatever you might enable via web client.

That's correct. My experience running a large web site is that Google
and the traffic it brings are generally more trouble than they're worth.

Roger