UseNet Health Check

Savageduck

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Jul 22, 2022, 2:35:11 AM7/22/22

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Since my break from r.p.d. and UseNet I thought I would check in to see the
condition of the NGs I usually subscribe to. Everything I see validates my
decision to no longer participate in the shit show that UseNet has become.
I seriously doubt that things will ever improve while the cross posting
trolls, and flame warriors continue to ruin what was once a useful forum.

I might check in again sometime in the future, but I suspect that will be
pointless.

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Regards,
Savageduck

RJH

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Jul 22, 2022, 3:13:45 AM7/22/22

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On 22 Jul 2022 at 07:34:19 BST, Savageduck wrote:

> Since my break from r.p.d. and UseNet I thought I would check in to see the
> condition of the NGs I usually subscribe to. Everything I see validates my
> decision to no longer participate in the shit show that UseNet has become.

I only ever see the outbreak - killfile the lot of them as soon as they start,
takes seconds.

> I seriously doubt that things will ever improve while the cross posting
> trolls, and flame warriors continue to ruin what was once a useful forum.
>

It's a shame that more users don't post more questions/experiences - things
have quietend down.

> I might check in again sometime in the future, but I suspect that will be
> pointless.

Well, I certainly valued your posts. That's not to say I always agreed when
you had a POV, but at least it was worth reading.

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Cheers, Rob

David Taylor

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Jul 22, 2022, 4:04:52 AM7/22/22

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I've always valued your posts, and I think that a killfile would significantly
improve your experience.

I see little clutter now on r.p.d.

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Cheers,
David
Web: https://www.satsignal.eu

Alfred Molon

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Jul 23, 2022, 7:02:46 AM7/23/22

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Actually rpd is in a reasonably good shape. There is not much on-topic
traffic anymore, but the situation is not as bad as you describe it.

The biggest problem is that there are no new people joining this NG.
--
Alfred Molon

Olympus 4/3 and micro 4/3 cameras forum at
https://groups.io/g/myolympus
https://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

nospam

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Jul 23, 2022, 8:50:59 AM7/23/22

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In article <izQCK.642953$4O6a....@fx14.ams1>, Alfred Molon

<alfred...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> The biggest problem is that there are no new people joining this NG.

that's true for usenet in general, at least for discussion groups. what
usenet has become is a method of binary file transfer.

Bud Spencer

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Jul 23, 2022, 1:47:35 PM7/23/22

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Was. It's also declining like text groups ... even 5 years ago bins were
much bigger they are nowadays.

It would be nice to see text groups be as popular they were late 90's
early 2k ... will not happen though.

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₪ BUD ₪

Ken Hart

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Jul 23, 2022, 5:56:33 PM7/23/22

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Your talents will be missed. Your drone videos are probably the closest
I will get to the Pacific coast

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Ken Hart
kwh...@centurylink.net

David Brooks

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Jul 24, 2022, 3:51:37 AM7/24/22

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On 22/07/2022 07:34, Savageduck wrote:

Especially for you, Duck!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1550576930302443520

The landing! 🙂

David Brooks

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Sep 12, 2023, 6:12:41 PMSep 12

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On 22/07/2022 07:34, Savageduck wrote:

You've simply become a grumpy old man, 'Savageduck'! :-P

I have watched each and every drone video which you've flown - and
thoroughly enjoyed all of them! 🙂

For other folk who may wish to see what you have been up to, they can
find you here:- https://www.youtube.com/@leonardoglesby1730

To date: 172 subscribers 118 videos

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David

croy

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Sep 13, 2023, 11:41:43 AMSep 13

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A big "thank you" to David Brooks for putting me on the trail of Savageduck. I was sad to see
him vanish from the rec.photo.digital group, and sorely missed his drone footage postings.

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croy

David Taylor

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Sep 13, 2023, 1:37:46 PMSep 13

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On 13/09/2023 16:41, croy wrote:
> A big "thank you" to David Brooks for putting me on the trail of Savageduck. I was sad to see
> him vanish from the rec.photo.digital group, and sorely missed his drone footage postings.

Same here - would love to see him back!

Fishrrman

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Sep 13, 2023, 4:45:54 PMSep 13

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On 9/12/23 6:12 PM, David Brooks wrote:
> On 22/07/2022 07:34, Savageduck wrote:
>> Since my break from r.p.d. and UseNet I thought I would
>> check in to see the
>> condition of the NGs I usually subscribe to. Everything I
>> see validates my
>> decision to no longer participate in the shit show that
>> UseNet has become.

The usenet news groups are slowly fading away.

I sense that most of those who still read and post to them
are getting old, and will soon be gone as well.

Even the binary groups (such as
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.yourfavoritegenre) aren't seeing
much in the way of traffic any more. Some go for weeks,
months, without a post.

A sign of the changing times.
Usenet will live on, but in a declining and perhaps
(finally) a "state of suspension".
Until the servers are simply switched off...

geoff

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Sep 13, 2023, 5:23:26 PMSep 13

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Has been the situation for a decade at least, but seeming now at an
increasing rate ....

geoff

David Brooks

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Sep 14, 2023, 3:38:13 AMSep 14

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Off Topic now ........

I'm sure it cannot be a coincidence that a "Fishrrman" also posts on
MacRumors, so I'm going a ask a favour!

I enjoyed posting on MacRumors as "Brawdy14", but you will note that I
am now "Suspended".

Are you sufficiently brave to post a question on MacRumors asking *WHY*
"Brawdy14" has been suspended - and, if you get an answer, ask for me to
be reinstated?

"Brawdy14" was my call-sign when I was learning to fly Hawker Hunters at
what was, then, RNAS Brawdy near Haverfordwest in South West Wales. I
later finished my naval career at RNAS Culdrose, Helston, not far from
your apparent home in Penryn!

Thanks for listening!

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David

David Brooks

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Sep 14, 2023, 3:46:36 AMSep 14

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On 13/09/2023 16:41, croy wrote:

You are most welcome, 'croy'.

I fear it was my fault that he left in the first place. I'm confident
that I did post an apology to him at one stage, but he never responded.

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David

Magani

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Sep 14, 2023, 5:58:57 AMSep 14

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Things you find on the InterTubes - I never knew the FAA flew Hunters. Is there one in the museum at Yeovilton?

Cheers,
Magani (obviously failed aviation nerd)

David Brooks

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Sep 14, 2023, 6:30:52 AMSep 14

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Yes - apparently there is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm_Museum#/media/File:Fleet_Air_Arm_Museum_hall_4.JPG

I believe there's also a Buccaneer - but not like this one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer#/media/File:Blackburn_Buccaneer_Blcackburn_Buccaneer_(16525773894).jpg

I flew one of those too - but not for long! There were *NO* dual control
versions!

Would you care to share YOUR flying experience?

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David

Magani

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Sep 14, 2023, 7:52:14 AMSep 14

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Very limited.
Total in the log - 5hrs dual in a Victa Airtourer 100 while starting to go for my PPL.
Total (VERY unofficial) - probably about 20~30 hours in a variety of Cessnas (172, 182 and 206), the odd Cherokee and Comanche, and 30 minutes in an F27.

Most of my aviation career was spent telling pilots where to go from either a glass box, or in a dim room looking into a CRT, in various parts of Oz, the Pacific and the Middle East. :-))

After about 25 years of that, I slid sideways into IT (mainly stopping small to medium businesses from trying to run their enterprises on macros in undocumented Excel s/sheets).

Life's been good, but retirement's been better. :-)

Cheers,
Magani

David Brooks

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Sep 14, 2023, 10:04:17 AMSep 14

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Thanks!

Better to have flow a bit than never to have flown at all! ;-)

> Most of my aviation career was spent telling pilots where to go from either a glass box, or in a dim room looking into a CRT, in various parts of Oz, the Pacific and the Middle East. :-))

Mine too! I was an ATCO when stationed at HMAS Albatross - the RANAS at
Nowra NSW 1987-89

> After about 25 years of that, I slid sideways into IT (mainly stopping small to medium businesses from trying to run their enterprises on macros in undocumented Excel s/sheets).

As you did that, I became an IFA!

> Life's been good, but retirement's been better. :-)

I couldn't agree more! :-D

> Cheers,
> Magani

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David

Magani

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Sep 14, 2023, 5:41:49 PMSep 14

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What a small world!!

Cheers,
Magani (YBBN, YBMK, NFFN, OOMS)

David Brooks

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Sep 15, 2023, 4:23:16 PMSep 15

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On 14/09/2023 22:41, Magani wrote:
> What a small world!! Cheers, Magani

(YBBN, YBMK, NFFN, OOMS)

In exchange for you telling me what those abbreviations stand for, I'll
give you this priceless item:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm73DLtwD0

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David

Magani

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Sep 15, 2023, 9:20:47 PMSep 15

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That after-dinner speech is a real classic. I stil get a chuckle out of it.

Rather than give the abreviations away straight up, here's a couple of hints.
1) They are ICAO (not IATA) codes for airports. They're the towers/centres where I've spent most of my time telling pilots where to go. :-)
2) 1st letter is the area of the world, 2nd is the FIR, sub-region within that area or country, 3rd and 4th are the actual airport.
3) In the 1st example YBBN: Y = Australia, B = Brisbane FIR, BN = Brisbane.

Also, I left 2 out (YSCB and YBCG - both only temporary)

Cheers,
Magani

David Brooks

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Sep 16, 2023, 9:43:44 AMSep 16

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Thanks, Magani

I thought that might have been the case. I've now looked and note that
you've enjoyed living in pretty warm locations! :-D

Once I worked with an RAAF ATC officer who told me he'd cleared an
aircraft to fly VFR below 500ft from Brisbane to Sydney (example names,
I can't remember now)). The pilot complied.

Later the controller discovered that it was actually a Boing 747!

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David

Magani

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Sep 17, 2023, 7:43:35 AMSep 17

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One of the 'old and bold' ATCOs here in Brisbane once asked an F-111 for his 'best speed downwind for sequencing'. The pilot's reply: ' Do you REALLY want that?' :-)
For the non-aviation fraternity out there, an F-111 had a top speed higher than Concorde and would have broken a stack of windows as he went through the sound barrier.

Re the 'warm locations', NFFN was beautiful - our house was about 50 yards from the beach. 28-ish all year round. In OOMS, when it was 45C and sticky on the coast, it was generally about mid to high 20s at 8000' up in the mountains and a lot less humidity. As for Qld, as they used to say in the ads, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next...'. The ad writers had obviously never lived through a cyclone in Nth Qld or the hordes of mosquitoes in the Gulf Country. :-)

Cheers,
Magani

David Brooks

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Sep 17, 2023, 5:35:09 PMSep 17

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Indeed! :-D

> Re the 'warm locations', NFFN was beautiful - our house was about 50 yards from the beach. 28-ish all year round. In OOMS, when it was 45C and sticky on the coast, it was generally about mid to high 20s at 8000' up in the mountains and a lot less humidity. As for Qld, as they used to say in the ads, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next...'. The ad writers had obviously never lived through a cyclone in Nth Qld or the hordes of mosquitoes in the Gulf Country. :-)

Thanks for chatting! :-)

FYI:-
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/southwest-father-son-pilot-childhood-photo-recreated/index.html

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