From: quinet@gamers.org (Raphael Quinet) Newsgroups: alt.games.quake,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.upcoming-3d Subject: QUAKE: Pointer to rec.games.computer.quake.* Organization: Gamers.org, http://www.gamers.org/ Approved: quinet@gamers.org Followup-To: poster Keywords: Quake newsgroups Greetings, fellow Quake players! If you are looking for more information and discussions about Quake, I suggest that you subscribe to the following six groups which are dedicated to Quake: rec.games.computer.quake.announce Info/FAQ/announcements about Quake. (Mod.) rec.games.computer.quake.editing Editing and hacking Quake-related files. rec.games.computer.quake.misc General discussion about Quake. rec.games.computer.quake.playing Playing Quake and user-created levels. rec.games.computer.quake.quake-c Modifying Quake with Quake-C. rec.games.computer.quake.servers Setup and maintainance of servers. The .announce, .editing and .misc groups were created in January 1996, followed by the .playing and .servers groups in May and the latest addition, the .quake-c group, in October. These different groups provide new places in which specific topics can be discussed, thus evening out the traffic. Make sure that your news server carries all of them, so that you do not miss any information related to Quake. If any of them is missing, a simple request to your local news administrator should be enough to have it created on your server. The .announce group is moderated in order to ensure that the information posted there is accurate; the other groups are not moderated, so you are free to post anything you want in these groups. However, it would be most polite to follow the charters of these groups, i.e. your articles should be related to Quake and no binaries should be posted there (use alt.binaries.games.quake instead). The old group, alt.games.quake, should not be used anymore because it has a spotty propagation: many sites have never created it (some of them do not carry any alt.* group) and some others have removed it when it was replaced by the new Quake groups. As a result, many Quake players cannot read the articles which are posted in a.g.q and would be deprived from any information posted there. For more information, read the articles titled "FAQ: replacement of a.g.q by rec.games.computer.quake.*" and "[TIP] How to move to rec.games.computer.quake.*", which are posted periodically in the Quake groups. These articles are also available for download: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/docs/rgcq-pips/agqr_faq ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/docs/rgcq-pips/agqm_tip If you are using a WWW browser, you can get an HTML version of these articles: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/docs/faqs/agqr_faq.html http://www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/docs/faqs/agqm_tip.html This article will be re-posted periodically, in order to inform new readers. If you have already read this article and you don't want to see it again, you can simply add its subject line to your killfile (if your newsreader supports this feature). The subject of this article will always be the same in order to make it easier for you to skip it automatically. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1996-97 by Raphael Quinet . You are allowed (and encouraged) to distribute verbatim copies of this article, on FTP or WWW sites. If you want to distribute a modified copy, please get in touch with me first. Last update: 02 February 1997.