This forum needs...

[Epythic]

7. He has the same opinion as me on what a mod should and shouldnt do. : )

[Silfir]

8. He is a swell guy with a distinct lack of being a moron (and certainly more reliable, trustworthy, and ADOM-addicted than I am). Though I would be sad about the lack of stickies. But I can still threaten to murder him in his sleep if it becomes necessary.

[Soirana]

1. He's already the official newsgroup maintainer, and if I'm not
mistaken, he's also the ADOM FAQ maintainer. I think it's just
consistent to have one guy modding both ADOM forums.

you mean that deserted place, which currently lost search function?

[gut]

As much as I'd like to blame Grey for the death of
RGRA, I can't. That place was a dead horse before
Planken left. Prolly that's why he left. Shame really,
considering how favorably it compares with forums,
but if you can't get people to use it...

It's still a valid point though.

[Soirana]

While Planken was on there were no problem with search function. Honestly i would not blame anyone about place being deserted.
Rather natural thing.

[gut]

What do you mean 'search function'?
That seems like a problem with google groups, not RGRA.

[Soirana]

works for other groups although. I will try another approach, but honestly without archeological search skill guide is going nowhere.

[Grey]

Wow, this thread has quickly degenerated from spam-hatred to praising me Can't say I disapprove

I must say not all of the points are valid though - I'm not maintainer of RGRA (there is no such thing for newsgroups) and my web maintenance experience is quite limited (I've certainly never done any forum moderation). Also I do now and then have time away from the internet, so I could not be wholly relied on to always be here fighting the spam hordes. Two or three moderators all following the same rules would be best.

Of course we'll have to just see what TB says when he finally returns to look over his flock.

[gut]

> I'm not maintainer of RGRA

Well, I just hopped on over to google and used the
search function that Soirana says doesn't work. I
typed in the querry:

"darren grey" maintainer group:rec.games.roguelike.adom

and discovered that Grey is indeed only the Faq maintainer.
I always thought that Planken was the NG maintainer
because he always posted the 'newbies, please read the faq'
posts, but I suppose that's because he was the faq maintainer.

Duh.

[gut]

I was just having a snark at Soirana. It does seem
like the groups.google search function is screwed
up right now, but using the regular google site,
combined with the 'group:rec.games.roguelike.adom'
function works fine.

Hope that helps the skill guide.