Jap. culture newsgroups with high traffic
D. Gaffrey
are there any Japanese culture NGs (in English!) which have high
traffic? If I a look at fj.soc.culture there is nearly nothing.
Dieter
Dave Fossett
> are there any Japanese culture NGs (in English!) which have high
> traffic? If I a look at fj.soc.culture there is nearly nothing.
Try the soc.culture.japan newsgroup or this one.
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
Michael Cash
<die...@NOSPAMgaffrey.de> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Hi,
>
>are there any Japanese culture NGs (in English!) which have high
>traffic? If I a look at fj.soc.culture there is nearly nothing.
Nah, dude. You're pretty much stuck slumming with the assortment of
riffraff here. Lots of web page based stuff, though, if you don't mind
people even more dense and clueless than us.
Louise Bremner
> are there any Japanese culture NGs (in English!) which have high
> traffic? If I a look at fj.soc.culture there is nearly nothing.
Sorry--you'll just have to learn the language and access
Japanese-language websites.
For some reason, the people who are truly knowledgeable about Japanese
culture don't post in English on newsgroups. (I can think of at least
one Japanese-culture-related newsgroup where such people have given up
on correcting all the wittering posted there by those who have rather
less knowledge than spare time. I have a crowded killfile on that
group.)
BTW, it might be a good idea to avoid that "J" abbreviation if you do
try posting to such a group.
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marc
Traffic is the wrong word -- more like bousouzoku doing wheelies in some
nighttime parking lot.
"D. Gaffrey" <die...@NOSPAMgaffrey.de> wrote in message
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wasabi
> D. Gaffrey <die...@NOSPAMgaffrey.de> wrote:
>
> > are there any Japanese culture NGs (in English!) which have high
> > traffic? If I a look at fj.soc.culture there is nearly nothing.
>
> Sorry--you'll just have to learn the language and access
> Japanese-language websites.
>
> For some reason, the people who are truly knowledgeable about Japanese
> culture don't post in English on newsgroups. (I can think of at least
> one Japanese-culture-related newsgroup where such people have given up
> on correcting all the wittering posted there by those who have rather
> less knowledge than spare time. I have a crowded killfile on that
> group.)
>
This used to be a fairly active and useful newsgroup until the Great
Flamewar of the Late 90's. Then, barbarian hordes, with new and
cheaper technology, took over this newsgroup and decimated the once
proud and affable society of Japan cogniscenti who habited this place.
A dread fear spread far and wide and any intelligent comment on Japan
was quickly killed. Now, those that are left, if they still remember
anything about Japan, are certainly not telling us what they know. ;)