What's up?
alcarruth
there must be something going on?
Alan Carruth / Luthier
Tony Done
"alcarruth" wrote in message
news:bbabb508-b6d2-41bb...@o20g2000yqo.googlegroups.com...
The most recent message I'm seeing is more than a week old. Surely
there must be something going on?
Alan Carruth / Luthier
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Google Groups and some ISPs (eg mine) haven't updated for about a week, GG
since 2 Aug here in Oz. I've switched to the Eternal September news server.
Tony D
JimLowther
There is an article about this:
I would disagree that barely anyone noticed, though.
Best wishes,
Dr. Jim Lowther
Jim McGill
Let us face it, most newsgroups are pretty useless these days.
R.m.m.builders is so small its rarely trolled heavily but r.m.m.bagpipe
became so bad I gave up on it years ago. If it isn't the trolls it's
some wacko sub-group that flames anybody that isn't in their camp (that
happened with the metal workers group). Frankly I'm surprised we've
lasted so long. I would have predicted everybody would have been forced
to move to the Musical Instrument Maker's Forum by now (which also stays
interesting, but has so much higher overhead it has never been healthy)
to avoid the trolls. It maybe because it is such a small group that the
occasional troll can't get any traction. Whatever, it continues to stay
interesting even to us non-luthiers.
Jim
JimLowther
I kind of hate to give up on UseNet, because I used the NGs long
before there was a World Wide Web. I suppose at one time I was
subscribed to about a dozen groups. I first accessed through a local
bulletin board feed. I remember the first time I got a reply to one
of my posts from someone in Australia--that was soo cool. Sometime in
the late 1980s(?) I got an unmarked packet in the mail that included a
floppy disk and an invitation to beta test a new online service. (I
had also been a beta tester for Prodigy.) The nameless service had a
front end GUI from Berkeley Softworks that I thought really worked
well (maybe better than MS Windows at the time, and requiring fewer
resources). After a year or so the service came to the public as
America Online, and as a beta tester I was given the chance for a
"lifetime" subscription at $10 a month. The great thing was that it
provided UseNet access at no extra charge, and the reader was
acceptable. For years people chided me as a technofeeb for being an
AOL subscriber, but it was one of the best deals I ever made. AOL has
changed, I have changed, NGs have changed. But I still like this
group.
Maybe we are the 21st century rendition of 75 meter rag chewers.
So what's this Facebook thingy I keep hearing about?
David Hajicek
"JimLowther" <JimLo...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Best wishes,
Dr. Jim Lowther
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I'm on Facebook, but it is a very non specific social thing. Here we talk
musical instruments (mostly), there, they talk about anything that comes to
mind. Very chaotic, sometimes.
Dave
Jim McGill
>
> I kind of hate to give up on UseNet, because I used the NGs long
> before there was a World Wide Web.
Jim:
I'm with you there. I started out using DarpaNet and always liked the
early news groups on it. They were a welcome break from all the heavy
duty "black" work. Better than the coffee where I worked and friendlier
than most of the engineers (you could have written a textbook on
Aspergers just by interviewing them). I'm glad the newsgroups still
exist, though I realize they are about as relevant as signal flags to
this day and age (I was going to say Morse code but I remembered a
cutting edge sound bite collector friend that uses it for labeling his
tracks because it is faster than using the texting interface and he can
do it in the dark - everything that is old is new! :-)
Jim
dhaji...@gmail.com
Dave
dhaji...@gmail.com
Dave