On Aug 19, 12:23 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Rocky Stevens wrote:
On Aug 19, 7:13 am, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Once again I will post below for anyone interested in serious aviation
related discussion the following alternative web based newsgroups. I
will repost this notice periodically.
Many of the pilots who used to post here are now posting at the
following forums. It's a slightly different format from Usenet but in
lieu of what's happening on RAP, you just might want to take a look at
these alternatives.

Reading the answers that follow this post might help to serve as an
added incentive for you to give these groups a try. :-))

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Dudley Henriqueshttp://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/index.phphttp://www.purpleboard....

Also, Jim Logajan is experimenting with setting up a Google Group.

Also,http://forums.aopa.org/

The AOPA groups are a fine alternative as you say. The only reason I
ommitted them is because I believe they require membership in AOPA to
access them. To do that I'd actually be spamming the group. The forums
I'm recommending are free access.
I agree with you that if anyone is willing to join or is already a
member of AOPA, their forums would indeed be an alternative to Usenet.
Not sure about the membership requirement however. Will check on this.

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Dudley Henriques

Yes. membership is required, though it is pretty cheap - $39 a year,
and a pretty good deal at that. FWIW, I usually define spamming as
cross-posting non-relevant, commercial stuff to a massive number of
groups. In any event, if plugging AOPA makes me a spammer, I am fine
with that.

I do sort of wish there was just one board, instead of the big three,
as I do not feel like checking three boards a day. But then again,
choice is a great thing (assuming there is any significant difference
between the three).