[gurps] End of Pyramid newsgroups

[hal at buffnet.net]

At 05:40 PM 11/9/2008 +0000, Roger wrote:
>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that's being withdrawn with another closed NNTP service.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.

Hi Roger,
  Not to be difficult, but as someone who was once a Pyramid Subscriber,
and then one who dropped it out of disinterest (amongst other reasons),
what would be the benefit of my joining the private newsgroup?  Clearly,
I'm not a member of the Pyramid Forums, and I am barely a contributing
member of the GURPS FORUMS itself these days.  The question arises not only
what value would I find in the private forums you'd like to set up, but
what value would I add? 

                Hal