Professional Counter-Strike - A New Year's Resolution......

[albert]

At last, I ended up going back to my old dial-up virgin.net news server and as usual they have all the groups:


My message:

I play regularly on Meat Hook PCS and thoroughly enjoy this type of
Counter Strike. With so many public servers out there full of
deathmatchers it's a pleasure to play CS the way it was supposed to be
played.

The regulars on Meat Hook simply try to complete the object with
teamwork and good communications. It makes such a change from seeing
your whole team run off to try and get kills each round. If there is a
player spoiling the game he gets warned and if it doesn't stop he's
history.

The server is near full each evening (European time) and there are
always events being arranged with things like touraments for regulars
to join in on. The folks who play on the server ae friendly and
helpful and you'll never get abuse because you are new or just aren't
playing well that day.

If you are interested in getting away from the monotony of public
server boredom then your should follow Mr TeaLeaf's advice.

Albert (Meat Hook regular)

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Newsgroups are all new to me..... what do i need and where do i go......If you r kind enough to throw me a few crumbs ill follow them till i find the post and add to it  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Benny]

Done....
if you are serious Sir Appleseed...try here..
http://www.ntlworld.com/help/generalHelp/index.html
but then I use NTL so it's prolly no use at all to you... I tried :?

[smilodon]

Newsgroups are all new to me..... what do i need and where do i go......If you r kind enough to throw me a few crumbs ill follow them till i find the post and add to it :lol: :lol: :lol:

Newsgroups are one of the old mysterious bits of the internet that Geeks over 20 remember. Newsgroups are discussion forums not disimilar to this chat forum exept they require no logon and are not web based. You need a newsreader (Outlook Express can read newsgroups) to read newsgroups and to write to them. Most ISP's provide a 'newsfeed' although poorer ISP's often do not cover all groups or hold posts for only a few days.

This might help http://www.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm

 

[albert]

Newsgroups are all new to me..... what do i need and where do i go......If you r kind enough to throw me a few crumbs ill follow them till i find the post and add to it :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lo JAS, since I have spent the last how many hours getting my newsreader to work, I can offer a few tips. Use a newsreader called Agent which is sort of the mIRC equipvilent of the newsreader world.

Below is a link from my site for the software:

http://www.sonnet.eclipse.co.uk/a32-191.exe

It may need a serial number or something, I can't remember (possibly Serial# 19781010) mine.

You just install this fella, go to Options, User and System Profile and add the URL of your news server, e.g. news.virgin.net.

After that go to Online and select Refresh Groups List and wait a minute or two to get the 45000+ groups list downloaded.

After that you just browse through or search the groups and when you find alt.games.half-life.counterstrike double click and download the headers. You should be able to list by the user who posted the message so look for TeaLeaf.

You then reply to his post.

To reply to a post you need to first configure an email server in Options/ Users and Server Profile/System and give yourself a name under the user tab. You don't need to give out an email address if you don't want to.

And there you have it.

[Benny]

I use good old Outlook with no probs. Stick your ISP server settings in and away you go.

Unless you want some obscure newsgroup you should be okay..

Albert, stay away from
alt.binaries.scottish.tartan.panties.for.men 8O

[JonnyAppleSeed]

thx for the help gents ill have a go tonight when i get home....

[albert]

I use good old Outlook with no probs. Stick your ISP server settings in and away you go.

Unless you want some obscure newsgroup you should be okay..

Albert, stay away from
alt.binaries.scottish.tartan.panties.for.men 8O

Funny thing that. I just ordered a kilt for my wedding but don't know what tartan to get    I'll have to check it out.  :wink:

[CiM]

If you're posting to a newsgroup for the first time, remember to spamblock your given email address (or to use a spamtrap address if you're with news.cis.dfn.de which disallows munged addresses).  The simplest way to munge your From header whilst still allowing people to email you is to simply put the word REMOVE into your email address somewhere, for example joe.public@REMOVErandomisp.com.

The reason for this is that newsgroups are frequently trawled by spam-bots.  They collect email addresses from both headers and message bodies.  These addresses then make it onto wonderful spam-list CDs, which are sold to unscrupulous organisations, which then send you lots of spam.

Incidentally, if you're giving somebody's email address out over USENET, don't write it un-munged.  Write it out as jane.doe AT otherisp.net or something.

I actually did a sad geeky test once, posting to a uk heirarchy group with an un-munged email address just twice.  The address, which was never given out to anybody, anywhere, except on that newsgroup, got about five articles of spam in the first month, fifteen in the second, forty in the third, and I stopped checking after that...

- CiM

[Gone_Away]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.. That's where I picked up that spray from.. Damn CiM I've got your spray.. yucky.. lol

[CiM]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.. That's where I picked up that spray from.. Damn CiM I've got your spray.. yucky.. lol

Eh?

- CiM

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Sorted

PCS pahh..
 
That’s that silly way of playing where you........
 
1 Work as a team
2 Co-ordinate attacks
3 Use voce coms
4 Cover the bomb
5 Attempt to complete the objective
6 Get people on camera, guiding you in for a kill
7 Have people covering you when you fight
8 Have admins following the play
9 Get respect from other players enjoying the game
 
So ill give it a go I thought.         ...and found it excelled in every aspect, bringing out great individual skill and team based play
 
The Tactics are on-the-fly and great fun to try and accomplish

As one of the members said “MeatHook PCS server is the place I spend my quality CS time”.

Then register for the MeatHook PCS server by clicking here:
http://mailman.crosswired.org.uk/listinfo/mh-pcs




-=[dMw]=-JonnyAppleSeed