Death of the newsgroup.

On Nov 25, 7:39*am, gorgon wrote:
I am pulling the plug on this newsgroup. *It is now officially dead .......... *When one looks at all the Yahoo groups that still
have an interest in aviation AND courteous, helpful members that stay
on topic (Tailwind, Buttercup, Aeronca, etc) this group is a dinosaur.

Bye

I left quite a while ago. Just checking in with a morbid kind of
curiosity to see what the body looked like.

Too bad that this all came to pass as this was at one time a vibrant
and useful site. The Yahoo type groups are good but we need a way to
keep the cross pollination of ideas active.

Homebuiltairplanes.com, as mentioned above, seems to be the best
replacement I've found. It has one very noticeable and positive
attribute that this site has lacked for a long time:

Young skulls full of mush that want to build and fly.

It can get kind of frustrating dealing with the same old beginner
questions and the "new" ideas, that aren't, but these enthusiastic
apprentices are the future of our sport/hobby. This bunch of old
foggies just never seemed to be accommodating of this group and, IMHO,
is one of the reasons it has atrophied and died.

HBA has some pretty knowledgeable members, many of whom were members
here in the past. It's worth checking out.
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Leon

On Nov 25, 2:39*pm, gorgon wrote:
I am pulling the plug on this newsgroup. *It is now officially dead in
my opinion. *RIP Bob Hoover..may you not turn over in your grave. With
the last infiltration post ..rant. or whatever you call it, I am done
with this group. *There hasn't been a decent topic thread in months.
Maybe it is time. *When one looks at all the Yahoo groups that still
have an interest in aviation AND courteous, helpful members that stay
on topic (Tailwind, Buttercup, Aeronca, etc) this group is a dinosaur.

Bye

Usenet in general is dead. It was designed in the days of the BBS's,
and there are serious flaws in it's architecture. It is a fair guess
that pretty much everyone who was involved in it when it was cool, has
since moved on the bigger and better technologies, and the only thing
left (administratively speaking) is some narcisistic blatherers who
make up the heriarchy board, and the smut addicts that use the relay
oriented nature of it to hide their surfing habits. (much like IRC)

I also hold little stock in facebook, twitter and their ilk. There
are better ways, both socially and technologically, and they are
fairly trivial to impliment. Unfortunately, there are very few people
who possess the skillset, the vision, and the freedom to make positive
change all at the same time.