Resurrection of the USENET Feeds

**Apophis** · 09-28-2005, 10:34 AM

Many of you may recall a few months ago when we announced that Tactical Gamer was going to begin carrying various USENET feeds and integrating them into our forums. The concept was great, bringing in new content to the community and allowing our community members easy access to some of the USENET groups that are out there on the net.

Unfortunately, the amount of content that was brought into the forums became unmanageable and it severely limited the usefulness of the "New Posts" and new post count functions of the site. Users would be alerted that there were new posts yet end up inundated with the USENET content even if they had no interest in it. It also caused problems with our own RSS feed that some users tie into applications such as Trillian to alert them when new posts were made. As a result of these issues, Tactical Gamer dropped the USENET feeds completely.

Over the past several days I have been working behind the scenes to bring back that functionality to the Tactical Gamer community in a manner that is easier to manage.

I am pleased to present the new Tactical News site at http://www.TacticalNews.com.

Tactical News is a very simple site and consists only of the forums software application and the back-end gateway software. Local forums on this site will be kept to a bare minimum, mostly relating to new group requests and support/Q&A type issues. Any posts made in the USENET feed groups will be propagated out to the Internet and carried by other USENET sites and NNTP servers.

This new site is devoted purely to acting as a "gateway" between USENET and our forum architecture. The new gateway even allows us to integrate mailing lists into the forums. Any user wishing to participate in the USENET discussions will need to make an account on the new site.

As of right now we are carrying several game and genre-related groups as well as the HLDS and HLDS_L mailing lists that are considered essential tools for Half-Life and Source server admins. More groups will be added over time.

Hop on over to http://www.TacticalNews.com and take a look!

Mateo · 09-28-2005, 10:40 AM

Very cool. And I like that it's isolated from the rest of the forums. Great job!

**Pokerface** · 09-28-2005, 10:42 AM

I believe in miracles
Since you came along

You sexy thing.

Nice work, Apo.

**Wyzcrak** · 09-28-2005, 11:46 AM

Damn.

I'm gonna need a bigger spoon.

Delicious.

**CingularDuality** · 09-28-2005, 01:48 PM

AGHLCS, here I come!

Phantom · 09-28-2005, 01:51 PM

Very nice work Apo. I did enjoy having them but they got in the way so much last time. But this works out great. Glad to have it, thanks for the hard work.

**Apophis** · 09-28-2005, 03:14 PM

You're welcome! Now hook me up with some Green Bubble +Rep!

:-)

Mateo · 09-28-2005, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apophis

You're welcome! Now hook me up with some Green Bubble +Rep!

:-)

I can't. I need to spread the green bubble love before I can give you more rep!

Phantom · 09-28-2005, 03:16 PM

you have plenty of green bubble rep :P

Mateo · 09-28-2005, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phantom

you have plenty of green bubble rep :P

Clean livin'!

Phantom · 09-28-2005, 03:32 PM

what so i'm dirty

/crawls in a corner and cries

i see how it is :P

j/k

**Iceberg** · 09-28-2005, 04:03 PM

Added info to tactical wiki.

marstein · 09-28-2005, 04:17 PM

Can we use our tacticalgamer account or do we need to create a new one?

**CingularDuality** · 09-28-2005, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marstein

Can we use our tacticalgamer account or do we need to create a new one?

You'll need to create a new one...

perry · 09-28-2005, 06:18 PM

How would email replies to our posts work? I looked up Apo's posts on Google Groups and the address is Apophis.1w34mw at no-mx.tacticalnews.com... I guess that address is a dead end?

Considering the spam spiders that go through groups I consider this a good thing.. Maybe I'll check out the BF groups.