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Death of the newsgroup.
May be we're just old farts holding on to antiquated technology?
Isn't everyone blogging now? What is a blog anyway and how do you blog about airplanes? Yeah I'm old. Blogging off. Chris |
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Death of the newsgroup.
On Nov 27, 12:54*am, Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On 11/26/2010 6:59 PM, gpabruce wrote: I couldn't help but notice the similarities between thw groups and the old CB radios. Remember how the old CB's started out being polite and helpful and a nice tool for truckers and travelers? Then they got so abusive a person couldn't turn one on around children they were so nasty. Seems the groups are going through the same thing. Why? I have no clue, maybe someone else does. Lack of personal consequences. *Say those things face-to-face, and you're likely to get punched. *Same them over the air on a CB or on USENET using a "handle," and you're untouchable. *Look at how much the garbage level rises when the participants start claiming to have identified their opponents. Ron Wanttaja Ron is right on with his thoughts... Anyone can hide behind screen names and throw BS every which way. Ron, me, Jay and a very few others actually use our REAL names and can and will defend ourselves. The spineless others hide the shadows of stealth names....... Ya wanna be taken seriously............ Step up to the plate and identify yourselves. Rant off. Ben Haas. www.haaspowerair.com |
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Death of the newsgroup.
"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m... I went and looked in again. I dunno, Dan. The forum format doesn't work for me. TOO many topics, and too little traffic. Richard Lamb email me: web site: www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb That's the same way that it looked to me. Unless I have a specific issue to search, probably related to a current project, the forum format is simply too tedious for normal reading and exchange of ideas. Perhaps someone will find a way to implement an HTTP based format that can work like NNTP; but, so far, I haven't seen it Regrettably, I am not presently able to provide a news server that could host a moderated group until the related service could gain general acceptance--so I will just have to put up with the situation as it exists and hope that the condition proves temporary. Peter Dohm |
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Death of the newsgroup.
On Nov 26, 10:03 pm, CaveLamb wrote:
Go to homebuiltairplanes.com and register. We're all over there now. It's moderated, as it needs to be, no foolishness is tolerated and we have some good discussions. Dan I went and looked in again. I dunno, Dan. The forum format doesn't work for me. TOO many topics, and too little traffic. Just go there and click on "What's New" and the entire list of new posts comes up, sorta like it does with this and the other usenet groups. You don't have to weed through the various forums. If there's less activity there it's due to the lack of flaming and other nonsense. It's not missed. Dan |
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Death of the newsgroup.
With the abundance of yahoo specific groups, where just about every
popular homebuilt has a builders group, and the matronics groups, there is so much good info out there in these and similar sites which didn't exist years ago. So the need for the all-encompassing newsgroup like this one is lessend. And over time the number of users has dropped off due to various reasons. Plus, usenet is being used by fewer people. Most computer users I've talked to have no clue about usenet. And once users see there's not much going on in a group like this, they check it less and less often. And so many usenet groups, including this one, keep getting inundated with spam. But I see that in the yahoo groups also. A scourge of the interent. And the ones who target usenet have many reasons to hate them. Such as using a different email address for every one of their worthless posts. So the filters in our usenet readers don't work. The only way to really keep them out would be to have a password access system. But usenet isn't setup for that. The one part of usenet that seems to keep alive are the binary groups. And that's another reason I think this group is less popular, is the fact we can't post pictures. It would be so much better if we could. To be able to show a picture of a part we we were working on, or a homebuilt we owned or were buiding, would add so much more. The old saying a picture is worth a thousand words is never more true. So why put up with this limitation? It gets old. This group is a victim of it's ancient limitations. Rich On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:39:32 -0800 (PST), 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 |
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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. ========= Leon |
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Death of the newsgroup.
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. |
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Death of the newsgroup.
Dancing Fingers writes:
May be we're just old farts holding on to antiquated technology? Maybe. But this antiquated technology--Usenet--is still the best way to exchange ideas, nimrods and trolls aside: - One place to get every topic you're interested in. In contrast, with forums you have to create a login for each one, even in the same topic! - Newsreaders (I use gnus within Emacs) can efficiently display messages and allow the user to rapidly page through posts. - Very efficient use of bandwidth, both Internet and mine. No stupid cutesy images, avatars, blah blah. - Newsreaders can be setup to screen out the idiots. In this case gnus is probably the most powerful but also the most difficult to learn. -- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - I. Kant |
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Death of the newsgroup.
stol writes:
Ron, me, Jay and a very few others actually use our REAL names and can and will defend ourselves. True enough. The single best thing to add to the Internet might be a voluntary, certified non-anonymous ID, to be used for purchases and groups where the participants don't want the nimrods. Well, you'd still have nimrods, but you could screen them out a lot easier. -- We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week. Groucho Marx |
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Death of the newsgroup.
Bug Dout wrote:
stol writes: Ron, me, Jay and a very few others actually use our REAL names and can and will defend ourselves. True enough. The single best thing to add to the Internet might be a voluntary, certified non-anonymous ID, to be used for purchases and groups where the participants don't want the nimrods. Well, you'd still have nimrods, but you could screen them out a lot easier. Microsoft Passport (now "Windows Live ID") attempts (or attempted) to do just that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_ID The service might have gained more traction if it had been done by a firm with few or no conflicts of interest with other Internet entities (i.e. a firm that did nothing but single-sign-on and user authentication.) |
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