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- From: yang@titan.ucc.umass.edu (HUAYONG YANG)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: electronic magazine (Re: GO World in trouble)
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 00:27:26 GMT
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- In article <1993Jan3.224516.18578@news.acns.nwu.edu> jzy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
- I wrote:
- >>
- >>I have an idea: why can't we publish a free electronic Go magazine?
- >>As far as I know, there is a free electronic magazine called Hua Xia Wen
- >>Zhai that many Chinese here love to read; another example is GameByte
- >>that circulates in game players community. If they can do it, we can do
- >>it. What we need are volunteers to organize the magazine and people's
- >>contribution. Count me as one if one is needed to do chores (sp?).
- >>BTW, I think ychen's series of articles would be fit for the magazine
- >>if there were one.
- >>
- >>bn 2k
- >>
- >
- >Exellent idea.
-
- Thanks.
-
- >In a electronic Go magazine, PostScript is not absolutely necessary; mgt
- >can produce a neat looking ASCII board. I like bn's suggestion to include
-
- This is a question I am thinking about. Is mgt good enough to handle the
- articles with few diagrams? Take ychen's articles for example, if we
- display them with mgt, the comment window would be way too crowdy. One
- way to solve this problem is to add one more feature to mgt, i.e. the
- ability to display ascii screenfully.
-
- >ychen's articles in such a magazine (a repost doesn't hurt). Also, we can
- >post short articles on Go history, pro players' stories, problems and
- >solutions, selected games on IGS (or problems from IGS games, like panx
- >once posted), specific joseki's, basic skills, etc. (Yes, I admit I've read
- >some real Go magazines. :-)
-
- Yes, virtually anything that the author want to share with people can be
- published in an electronic magazine.
-
- >
- >This way, some small articles that might be posted on rec.games.go will
- >get well orginized, and it's easier for people to get them at once (Yes,
- >they could miss it altogether too; but then, they would *know* that they
- >have missed it).
- >
-
- Well said. For instance, I lost track in the discussion of King's
- problem. It would be nice if we put the problem in one issue and
- in next issue we summarize the discussion on net and give the answer
- with main variations.
-
- >Volunteers are obviously needed. Count me.
- >
- Good, you are at the top of my list.:-)
-
- bn 2k
- >Jim Yu
- >--
- >Go isn't everything. Go is the only thing. -- zhuge
- >
- >
- >
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