Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #0000000000aa...x?s-I??_??<buffer overflow>

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:44:43 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:18:10 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:00:02 GMT, Geeknix
<usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:
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Tried to get this, says it is already taken :-(

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You guys need to be quicker. Spalls is posting these games every day.
He may even do it multiple times a day.

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I haven't done it multiple times a day this season... yet. But who
knows what might happen in the future. ;-)

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(out of respect for your time, I'll give you this much: the schedule
is for once a day UNTIL Christmas day. But even I am not sure what
might happen on the 25th, although past history shows a tendency
towards excess on my part)

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Just post at a random time daily to make this more challenging and fair to all of us. I was like 30
minutes late and a couple hours early for today. DOH!

I generally _do_ post at random times (or at least, I try not to post
at the same time every day). I call it the "Mike S Rule" because one
particular year he was quite adept at snapping up all the games (in
fairness, when this was pointed out, Mike S quite graciously paused
the acquisitions so others might have an opportunity to get some of
the freebies). But since then, I've tried to vary the time of my
free-game announcements to make it more difficult for anyone to 'sync
up' with my schedule and grab all the goodies for themselves.

(That said, the variance this year isn't quite as wide as in previous
years. That requires effort and I am infamously lazy ;-)

As for the Christmas Day postings, I haven't decided exactly how and
what I'm going to do, but in previous years I tend to give away a game
once every hour or so throughout the day until the games were all
gone. Although it was mostly wasted efforts since most of those games
weren't actually CLAIMED until the day thereafter, since you all
understandably were doing real holiday stuff rather than religiously
watching Usenet ;-)


This has been your daily peak behind the CSIPGA Holiday Give-Away
curtain. Betcha didn't know it was so complicated, eh? ;-)