> Someone, just give me access to Tin. I could use someone's password to his shell
> for 10 minutes and you've got yourself a new newsgroup. alt.games.mame is

Hmmm. I've got it on my Linux partition. I'm not sure that a discussion newsgroup is a better solution than the message board you linked, but there ALREADY IS a *binary* pinball newsgroup out there and that could make a VERY good compliment to an unmoderated message forum.

> Edit: I don't think Usenet newsgroup would be the best solution but we can do it
> anyway. I think the best solution would be a place like this:
> http://www.pinballmania.net/indexe.html
>
> with upload engine and message board. _All_ VPM tables at the same place, plus
> uncensored message board is all we need. This place can't handle too much
> traffic in downloads, so maybe we could limit the download the same way as AJ
> does.

Maybe something like that would be a good HQ, so-to-speak and the archived tables could go there (with limits on them). Meanwhile we could get some volunteers (or even the table authors if they're willing to double upload) to send a copy across the binary pinball newsgroup (which wouldn't affect bandwidth on the site).