Pilot Chronicles is Looking for Pilots

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:21:37 GMT Kyler Laird wrote:

"R.Hubbell" writes:

Here's the deal, this heirarchy is where the stories are....
So there's no incentive to go to that site and post stories
since this is where it's done. It's called Usenet and it's
been around longer than the www.

*But* there are HTTP interfaces to it too. (BTW, I'm not agreeing
that Usenet is somehow better just because it's been around longer.


I never said it was better, just that it was around longer. The OP
seemed to not comprehend Usenet fully so I pointed that out.


I know of a lot of old things that aren't worthwhile. Usenet isn't
one of them though.)

If you're trying to generate
traffic to your site there are other ways to do that. But I suspect
you won't find a lot of people here to post stories there.

Indeed. I would hope that someone with a real story to share would
be interested in *sharing* it, not locking it in some proprietary
Web site. Posting it to Usenet makes it easy to find and easy to
discuss. (Don't get me started on "Web boards.") Sometimes the


Right Usenet is 24/7 all over the globe and it's essentially forever
with the advent of google.com (deja.com used to do that)



best part of the story is when someone says "Couldn't you have...?"
and the answer is "Doh! I wish I had thought of that!"

There's a lot to learn from stories. That's curtailed by putting
them in proprietary systems.

You could maintain and host the rec.aviation.piloting FAQs or
you could maintain a list of unique GA planes or like that.

...or even maintain lists of references to stories posted to Usenet.
If I found well-organized lists of Google links, I'd probably be
inclined to browse them.



I've seen that done in places but it's rare. I agree it's useful.


R. Hubbell



--kyler