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: none
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 five 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.servers  Setup and maintainance of servers.

The .playing and .servers groups are the latest additions to the
r.g.c.q.* hierarchy.  They will help by providing new places in which
specific topics can be discussed, thus evening out the traffic.  They
passed the Usenet vote on the 10th of May and they were created on the
15th of May; if your server doesn't carry these yet, you should
request them from your local news administrator so that you don't miss
any information.

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.

-Raphael
 <quinet@gamers.org>
