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New Newsgroup Needed!

7 posts by 7 people · 02 Sep 1999 - 04 Sep 1999

There is going to be a genuine need for a newsgroup dedicated only to Nascar Racing 3 after its release. Does anyone know how to go about proposing this? Like: rec.autos.simulators.nascar 3 Here's hoping! Roger
Hi, Why not just call it "rec.autos.simulators.nascar"? NASCAR Racing 3 isn't the first (and hopefully won't be the last NASCAR sim), why restrict it to one sim? When people start playing NASCAR Racing 4 the group will just be abandoned and end up being a waste. IMO, R.A.S. serves its purpose very well. It is the main group I read everyday for all of my sim racing news/gossip? :) Sure there will be a flood of news posts when N3 is released, but it will eventually slow down a bit and people will move on to GP3 or Rally Champ, etc. I remember when GPL was released, I was at University all day so I didn't get a chance to check to group until the evening. On good days then I think the group got 120- 150 posts a day, but on that day (in mid Oct.) it was 280+! Maybe a better place to discuss N3 would be the NASCAR Racing 3 forum at www.simracingnews.com. Later, John
ymenard 03 Sep 1999#489727
No there is no need for that. the rec.* hierarchy will never find a reason for that. People on r.a.s. are all against this also. There is newsgroups in that hierarchy with 1000+messages per day and they do not split. r.a.s. has 200 when there is action. It will never happen! ;) -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
There is no need for a new newsgroup thank you. Nascar1 was talked about here on r.a.s. then Nascar2 then Nascar99, now Nascar3 will be talked about here on r.a.s. just think howm many empty newsgroups we would have now, if each time a new popular sim title came out someone created a new newsgroup. No thanks, let's keep all the sim talk in the same group where we call all benefit from each other's view point. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva
Quoted text (10 lines)>There is going to be a genuine need for a newsgroup >dedicated only to Nascar Racing 3 after its release. >Does anyone know how to go about proposing this? >Like: rec.autos.simulators.nascar 3 >Here's hoping! >Roger
Hey RAS'ers I too would like to see a rec.autos.simulations.Nascar newsgroup ! I, also, enjoy the online aspect of N2 racing and going through 200-400 messages takes up too much of my precious time. I end up spending more time reading than racing ! If TEN plugs the plug on the NROS and the TEN.simulators newsgroup then all of the onliner's will need a place to go. - Tim A. Deatherage "Admitted Sim ***" > >There is going to be a genuine need for a newsgroup >dedicated only to Nascar Racing 3 after its release. Nascar sims, it would be better to call it something like rec.autos.simulators.nascar or rec.autos.simulators.nascar-racing, or hundreds of messages a day - sometimes more!
Dave Bowm 04 Sep 1999#489990
Whilst I agree that it would be nice to have another newsgroup devoted to Nascar sims, it would be better to call it something like rec.autos.simulators.nascar or rec.autos.simulators.nascar-racing, or even rec.autos.simulators.papyrus. R.A.S. can sometimes feel just a little too cramped, as it often receives hundreds of messages a day - sometimes more! This is by no means a bad thing, but there would certainly be benefits to a newsgroup more specific to one genre. Dave Bowman
Tim O 04 Sep 1999#489991
I agree. I like all racing sims, and I'd want to scan through all the messages anyway so I'd like to get it one group. Once we're through the initial burst of posts, having it a separate group will just be a pain in the butt. Tim

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