Quake 2 Newsmail?

[Miniwood]

Thanks to Musashi, who signed up to join it, I found out I moderate a Quake 2 Usergroup over at RUST. Thing is what's the point of a group if I don't do anything with it?

Well, as admin for the group, I can send out mass mail to all members. So I had an idea.

How about a monthly Quake 2 Newsmail? Members of the group, or others, could send me news items about Quake 2 and once a month I pack them up and send them out to all members. You may think 'I already know all there is to know' and for regular forum watchers that's probably true but this would go out to people who don't necessarily haunt the forums 24/7 and would form a community link, drawing in new members and maintaining the q2 community. And if you happened to miss anything during the month it would be there for you to read. Anything could be promoted; New maps, new mods, new servers, you name it. As long as it's to do with Q2 it's in. In fact we all could be surprised about how much is going on we didn't know about.

RUST started because of Q2 and is moving on now to newer games but I'm determined to keep that Q2 heart beating and I want to use the unlimited commercial bandwidth I have at my disposal to maximum effect. So what do you say? I can handle the admin side of it but I can't gather all the news myself. It will need people like you to participate by sending me items or drawing my attention to things.

Is this a good idea?

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Hey Miniwood,
I think this is a great idea!

I'm in, please let us know more as details become available.

I would glad to help you in any way I could.

[Stah]

sounds great, but i'm not sure if a month is a proper period. if there are many news maybe 2 weeks would be a better one?

[tIKi_mAn]

hey that sounds like a great idea
would be be possible get the tikidomain in that? like the most recent reviews and stuff for q2? i could send you updates when new maps are reviewed and such.

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Yeah,
Good idea T.M.

This is gonna be cool

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Cool, iam game....

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Hey Miniwood,
How about if you notify us here on the Cafe' one week before you release your newsmail and we can let you know what's going on here?

[WHO?]

top idea Miniwood 10/10 mate:

- how far afield would you like news from?

- major news or local public server heads up stuff good enough?

-example we're in the final stages of a host move just now & are actually letting loose a whole buncha servers ( well I'm the guy gets slapped for the 'things quake" ) so its servers servers servers ...

whatever it takes to keep the game alive bloke, count me active from my corner of the world if you want

[Miniwood]

OK everybody, thanks. The newsmail will be set up some time in October. I'll make an announcement with details of what to do nearer the launch.

TiKiMaN - Yes, new reviews etc. on the tikidomain is Q2 news and is in.

Stah - It's gonna be a month. It's a lot of work, I have other duties at RUST, I need time to map and I have a RL too. It will maybe not be hot news but a sort of 'The month in Q2' digest, making sure the whole community is up to speed.

WHO? - It's global, if there's a new server up anywhere I'll include it in.

Thanks all of you for your positive responses. Look out for a launch sometime in October.

[Miniwood]

Le said:

Hey Miniwood,
How about if you notify us here on the Cafe' one week before you release your newsmail and we can let you know what's going on here?

I think I'll take items anytime you have them, store 'em up in notepad and then pack them all into the newsmail come delivery day. I'm hoping that you guys will remember to drop me items without too many reminders. If you hear anything about Q2 that you think the world needs to know just mail it to me. But not yet, wait for a full announcement soon.

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

If you hear anything about Q2 that you think the world needs to know just mail it to me. But not yet, wait for a full announcement soon.

Will do Miniwood, just let us know when you're ready.

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

How's the newsmail going Miniwood?

[Miniwood]

Le said:

How's the newsmail going Miniwood?

Days away from a worldwide announcement. :-) Final testing of the mail system is complete, unfortunately it will be a plain text mail but some people prefer that anyway. I'll announce it in a separate thread here (and everywhere else).