On 1/12/2024 8:00 PM, peps...@gmail.com wrote:

Just won an 11 point match against XG by 15
to 10 over 9 games with a PR of 3.59.

Do you also look at your checker and cube PR's
separately? While mine are both almost always
super high, in general my cube PR's are higher
than my checker PR's.

So Tim can be impressed by my PR and Murat
can be impressed by the fact that I won.

I'm proud of you. ;) And yes, for me, the only
thing that matters is winning. PR is cow pie!

MK

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On 1/15/2024 6:28 PM, tetraHydro saved my life wrote:

Oh.. i just noticed the Google Groups announcement that no new Usenet posts will be supported effective Feb 22-2024. Does this mean we have to use something other than Google to access rgb? Is there any other platform that you guys use for bg

discussions?

I use www.eternal-september.org to access rec.games.backgammon.
It took me a while to figure out how to set up Thunderbird on my
machine to interact properly with Eternal September, but now it
works pretty well (although it's not perfect).

For backgammon discussions, you can try Stick's forum at
bgonline.org/forums. You need an account to post there, but Stick
will be happy to give you an account for free.

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Tim Chow

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On 1/16/2024 6:20 AM, Timothy Chow wrote:

On 1/15/2024 6:28 PM, tetraHydro saved my life wrote:

Oh.. i just noticed the Google Groups announcement
that no new Usenet posts will be supported
effective Feb 22-2024. Does this mean we have to
use something other than Google to access rgb? Is
there any other platform that you guys use for bg
discussions?

I use www.eternal-september.org to access
rec.games.backgammon.It took me a while to figure
out how to set up Thunderbird on my machine to
interact properly with Eternal September, but now
it works pretty well (although it's not perfect).

I also started using Eternal September last week.
Setting up Thunderbird was a breeze and I have no
issues. I'm worried that we may have problems in
the future as all those people using Google will
switch to using open servers.

For backgammon discussions, you can try Stick's
forum at bgonline.org/forums. You need an account
to post there, but Stick will be happy to give
you an account for free.

Stick's forum existed for a long time but is not
nor will ever be a replacement for Usenet RGB. It
attracts a different breed of people discussing
different subjects, mainly positions. I wish Tim
and his ilk would take their compulsive obsessive
several-per-day position discussions there, instead
of trying to herd others from RGB to Stick's Forum.

MK

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On 1/16/2024 11:22 AM, MK wrote:

On 1/16/2024 6:20 AM, Timothy Chow wrote:

On 1/15/2024 6:28 PM, tetraHydro saved my life wrote:

Oh.. i just noticed the Google Groups announcement
that no new Usenet posts will be supported effective Feb 22-2024.
Does this mean we have to
use something other than Google to access rgb? Is there any other
platform that you guys use for bg
discussions?

I use www.eternal-september.org to access
rec.games.backgammon.It took me a while to figure
out how to set up Thunderbird on my machine to
interact properly with Eternal September, but now
it works pretty well (although it's not perfect).

I also started using Eternal September last week.
Setting up Thunderbird was a breeze and I have no
issues. I'm worried that we may have problems in
the future as all those people using Google will
switch to using open servers.

For backgammon discussions, you can try Stick's
forum at bgonline.org/forums. You need an account
to post there, but Stick will be happy to give
you an account for free.

Stick's forum existed for a long time but is not
nor will ever be a replacement for Usenet RGB. It
attracts a different breed of people discussing
different subjects, mainly positions. I wish Tim
and his ilk would take their compulsive obsessive
several-per-day position discussions there, instead
of trying to herd others from RGB to Stick's Forum.

MK

ok so I am posting this using thunderbird / eternal september as per TC reference. It can be a bit confusing to setup but google always to the
rescue.

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