"king" <kingzhou2363@gmail.com> wrote in message
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This newsgroup makes me laugh. Theres more posts about WOW here than Eq.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

> This newsgroup makes me laugh. Theres more posts about WOW here than Eq.
> Oh how the mighty have fallen.

They're not about WoW, they're about selling gold in-game.

Growing old and dying is natural, it's not like EQ fell off a cliff and
expired, it's just growing old and dying.

--
Tony Evans
Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
blog -> http://perceptionistruth.com/
olmr -> http://www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk/
[ anything below this line wasn't written by me ]

Tony <tony@[127.0.0.1]> writes:
> > This newsgroup makes me laugh. Theres more posts about WOW here than Eq.
> > Oh how the mighty have fallen.
>
> They're not about WoW, they're about selling gold in-game.
>
> Growing old and dying is natural, it's not like EQ fell off a cliff and
> expired, it's just growing old and dying.

It *is* sort of sad though that not only is most of the recent content
gold spam, but it's gold spam targetted at a different game. (And then
spewed indiscriminately to other groups because, well, it's spam.)

Heck, there wasn't even the usual griping about the servers not coming
up on time after last night's downtime!

Speaking of which, I had to go to work before the servers came up, so I
haven't had a chance to see what's new, but I read the patch notes in
the loading screen and it looks like they're starting the events leading
to the expansion of Seeds of Destruction. Anyone have any details yet?
(I enclose the relevant portion below.)

-- Don.

================================================== ==============

The Tides of Anachronism

All across Norrath and beyond, the boundaries between past and present and
between parallel realities seem to be fraying.

Within the normally peaceful Plane of Knowledge, three heralds of Druzzil
Ro entered the realm; bringing warnings of troubled and dangerous times
ahead.

"Danger has arrived! Our time is very short! Time is ticking and our doom
may have arrived! As it passes, time takes with it portions of our lives.
Well, your lives. And now it threatens to take all of our lives. Powers of
chaos and destruction are taking their time, taking our time! Go quickly,
time is so very short."

Meanwhile, over in the Dreadlands, a retired scholar named Deckarn
Mystglade is seeking someone to help keep him from losing his mind.

A few years back when the Plane of Time was first breached by Norrathian
adventurers, Deckarn warned his fellow scholars that interfering with the
realm of time would only lead to disaster. After continuously trying to
prophesize his unproven theories, he was forcibly requested to retire.
Since then, Deckarn has been a bit unsure of anything around him.

Over the past few weeks, Deckarn has been feeling a strange shift in time
and began to have visions of epic battles, re-building, corruption, decay,
and war. Uncertain of himself, he needs someone to investigate the
mysterious occurrences in his visions to confirm that he isn't going
insane.

Curious adventurers begin to travel to the Plane of Knowledge and the
Dreadlands to hear the rumors first hand.

Don Woods wrote:

> Tony <tony@[127.0.0.1]> writes:

>> Growing old and dying is natural, it's not like EQ fell off a cliff and
>> expired, it's just growing old and dying.
>
> It *is* sort of sad though that not only is most of the recent content
> gold spam, but it's gold spam targetted at a different game. (And then
> spewed indiscriminately to other groups because, well, it's spam.)

It's sad when anything declines and moves toward the end of it's natural
life.

> Heck, there wasn't even the usual griping about the servers not coming
> up on time after last night's downtime!

The decline of usenet combined with EQ's decline leads to that. There
are a lot of people still playing EQ, involved in EQ and enjoying EQ
(and talking about it), but many of those people have never heard of usenet.

> Speaking of which, I had to go to work before the servers came up, so I
> haven't had a chance to see what's new, but I read the patch notes in
> the loading screen and it looks like they're starting the events leading
> to the expansion of Seeds of Destruction. Anyone have any details yet?
> (I enclose the relevant portion below.)

I don't, I'm going through an indefinite period of not playing EQ or
just about any other MMORPG's and if I do, it's LoTRO.

--
Tony Evans
Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
blog -> http://perceptionistruth.com/
olmr -> http://www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk/
[ anything below this line wasn't written by me ]

"pris_flynn" <parf@snip.net> wrote in message
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> "Tony" <tony@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:48e395a3$0$521$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>
>> The decline of usenet
>
> To the point: From the time that I started internet activity, my internet
> service provider gave me email and usenet. About three months ago they
> stopped providing usenet. However, I find it so much more peasant to read
> in this format rather than the Google version, that I found a private
> provider, and I am charged monthly on my credit card for this privilege.
>
> Post on!
>

You should use a third party provider for email.
Then you arnt reliant on your isp, and more importantly you dont lose your
email address if you change isp's.
I use yahoo. They have servers that work with outlook express and its free.