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Toby Harris Expert Series

#1 Post by ManWithNoName » Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:17 pm

Getting back into the game after a few years away. Back in the day, I used to love reading the Toby Harris expert series. They are listed here ...

https://diplom.org/Zine/list.html

but are not actually available, the links are broken. Does anyone know if they are available somewhere?

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#2 Post by Trigfea63 » Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:56 pm

I, too, was a PBEM player and fondly remember the diplom.org "zines." Lots of great material. It looks like starting in mid-2015, the links to individual zine articles don't point to the right place. As best I can tell, the articles still exist and it's just a matter of fixing the links. I'll have more on this in a few days.

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Re: Toby Harris Expert Series

#3 Post by foodcoats » Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:44 pm

I’ve actually been putzing around there lately too and noticed the issue with the site. The library of Diplomacy openings also seems to be broken, but like Trigfea said you can get to the individual pages with enough googling. It’s a really great resource, hopefully it doesn’t go down the tubes. And now I’m intrigued by this Toby Harris series!

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#4 Post by JECE » Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:19 pm

The URL of The Diplomatic Pouch seems to change every few years for whatever reason. Once it's sorted out it would be good to update here:

https://webdiplomacy.net/contrib/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37
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Re: Toby Harris Expert Series

#5 Post by GuineaPig » Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:15 pm

Try that one:
https://diplom.org/Zine/list.html

It got updated up to 2021 (contrarily to the one at the end of your link, that got stopped after 2017)

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Re: Toby Harris Expert Series

#6 Post by ManWithNoName » Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:50 pm

Thanks @GuineaPig - but the Toby Harris links are all broken there too.

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#7 Post by GuineaPig » Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:38 am

Oh, sorry, I copied & pasted the wrong one :eyeroll:
There you are:

http://www.diplomatic-pouch.org/Zine

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#8 Post by JECE » Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:01 pm

It works!

http://www.diplomatic-pouch.org/Zine/list.html
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Re: Toby Harris Expert Series

#9 Post by ManWithNoName » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:42 pm

Thanks GuineaPig! I just find those articles fun to read and re-read once in a while, there is some unconventional stuff in them and from a former World Champion.

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