I pop in here about once a month, and am dismayed to see what has
happened to this once-beloved group. It just continues to spin and
devolve.

However, I can say that about almost every aspect of general aviation
nowadays, so IMHO rec.aviation is simply reflecting what's happening
throughout the aviation world.

a) Fewer pilots = fewer A&Ps, fewer FBOs, fewer airports, fewer rental
planes, and fewer rec.aviation users.

add this to...

b) A general decline in civility throughout society

....and you've got...this. It's sad, but everywhere.

WRT to Usenet itself, the migration to web-based groups (Pilots of
America; AOPA's board, etc.) proved less than satisfactory, thanks to
well-meaning but overbearing, over-aggressive moderators who have the
habit of shutting down a conversation right when it's about to get
interesting. The end result is a plain-vanilla, cordial-yet-boring re-
hashing of the same ten topics, over and over. After the first few
months, it became a good cure for insomnia.

So....GA is splintered into smaller and smaller groups, and those few
of us who are left have fewer ways to voice our thoughts and
opinions. Our grandkids will one day marvel at the fact that "grandpa
and grandma used to fly their own plane!" I am sorry to see this
happen, beyond words.
--
Jay Honeck
Port Aransas, TX
Pathfinder N56993



On Jan 16, 5:29*pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"george" wrote

They'll come back when the spammers move on

*Nope. *When volume starts to build, MX will come back, and people will
start responding, and then other cross posted crap will appear, and people
will respond to them, and then people will get frustrated and blast the
posts and the replies, and then everyone will go away again. *Sound
familiar? *It should.

History. *It repeats.

Until everyone that is a serious poster quits answering OT and obnoxious
posters and posts, it will continue being dead. *It seems as though many
have the need to stroke their own egos by responding to everyone, thus
proving their superior intelligence.
--
Jim in NC