Welcome to MPG-Net Mailing Lists

I would like to take this time to welcome you to the MPG-Net mailing lists.
 Many of you have been members of our Traveller and other Sci-Fi/Modern
lists for some time.  Many others have recently moved here when the AD&D
Lists moved here.  Please read all the message.

MPG-Net is committed to offering the best gaming, not only online gaming,
but role-playing support as well.  We support these mailing lists, and one
of the largest FTP archives of roleplaying material around.
(http://www.mpgn.com/)

I don't want to hog much of the airways but I thought that a quick "status
report" was due.

For those who don't know, MPG-Net is now hosting seven new mailing lists
that are dedicated to the TSR prodcuts for AD&D: Planescape, Ravenloft,
Dark Sun, DragonLance, Spell Jammer, Forgotten Realms, and Birthright.
These lists are in addition to the existing game lists:  Traveller,
Twilight:2000, Dark Conspiracy, and 2300AD.

"Hey he didn't say anything about the Xboat list?"  Thats right, Xboat
usage is non-existant, and it has served its purpose well, however with the
new version of "Mark Miller's Traveller" out, the segmented discussion is
no more.  Xboat will be retired at: 12:01 12/01 (all times EST).

As a consequence of adding these new lists, we have had to upgrade our
majordomo software from 1.93 to 1.94.  Well this involved upgrading to Perl
5.003, and the combination on a DEC Alpha was, well lets say "Ugly".  Any
way, we now have it setup on a new machine, and things look good.  We will
see what happens when the digests bust over night (fingers crossed).

One benifit of the move is that the mailing list archives are now on a
local hard drive to the ftp server and are not NFS mounted, which should
improve their reliablity.

We apologize for the problems, but that comes with growth and change.

Regarding the FTP Site and old digest messages:  Our human support for
these lists is on an as avaiable basis, so we don't get to process the
uploads for the ftp as quickly as we like.  I am going to make it a goal to
see that that happens each Friday morning, but no promises.  The old
archive messages for the TSR lists should be in place sometime tomorrow.
Also, for those who haven't gotten a recent update, our FTP site is now
full throttle, and has plenty of open connections on a T1.  Much better
than 3 connections on a 56K!

"What can we expect in the near future?"  Well I hope to get a web
interface to the mailing lists up, so you can subscribe/unsubscribe etc
from the web.  I want to tie in some information pages on the various games
together.  No time frames estimated.

Finally, even though we offer these lists and the FTP Archive free, we
still have to feed our employees, so be warned:  Comerical comming:

Please check out our home page at:  http://www.mpgn.com/

MPG-Net Showcase Internet gaming is a very inexpensive way to play online
games, not only your favorite LAN Games, but our unique games, such as the
Fantasy favorite Kingdom of Drakkar, and the Dark Conspiracy based game,
Minion Hunter.  You can also use our chat areas for online gaming!!!!.

Thanks and good gaming!

Rob Miracle
Your list admin dude (except for the TSR lists, which are still admin'ed by
their respective parties).