What has happened to rec.sport.tennis?

setn...@gmail.com

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Sep 25, 2012, 2:27:42 AM9/25/12

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I guess it has been about 13 or 14 years since I last looked at this newsgroup. I can't even really remember why I stopped browsing/contributing.

It used to be full of keen tennis players talking technique, discussing the majors, etc. I can still remember one particularly heated discussion on the biomechanics of the kick serve that went on for weeks. There was no talk of american politics, no anti-islamic nonsense.... rec.sport.tennis was a truly international forum and only talked about tennis.

What happened?

Professor X

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Sep 25, 2012, 3:03:31 AM9/25/12

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google groups + usenet death.

Whisper

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Sep 25, 2012, 7:32:33 AM9/25/12

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Fuck off troll.

Dave Hazelwood

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Sep 25, 2012, 9:31:22 AM9/25/12

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Obama became President and the whole world turned to shit is what
happened.

drew

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Sep 25, 2012, 11:06:23 AM9/25/12

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We get bored when there's no big events so we talk about other
shit...most of the players are in semi-vacation mode
for the rest of the year.

Vari L. Cinicke

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Sep 25, 2012, 11:19:09 AM9/25/12

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First rst became a whisper of itself due to a Sampras nut's battle for
bandwidth over many years.

Now it is nutjob Hazelwood's favorite puking spot.

Joe Ramirez

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Sep 25, 2012, 12:14:01 PM9/25/12

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On Sep 25, 2:27 am, setnma...@gmail.com wrote:

Assuming yours is not merely a rhetorical question, I answered it
several months ago. Here's the gist:

"Usenet itself is now hopelessly inadequate for specialized, technical
discussion. A good forum for specialists will have carefully
demarcated categories, thousands of easily accessible archived posts,
decent search functionality, and judicious moderators. If you go to
the Tennis Warehouse forums, for example, you can focus your query on
a designated topic and subtopic and actually research it as well,
actions that are either impossible or impractical on RST. I used to
participate in Usenet groups for saxophonists and snowboarders that
8-12 years ago were lively places; today they are ghost towns. Yet
elaborately constructed Web discussion groups for these hobbies are
booming, because they make it much more likely that a user will locate
the information sought. The last bastion of Usenet is fan/BS posting,
which of course is RST's raison d'être."

Calimero

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Sep 25, 2012, 1:51:38 PM9/25/12

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On 25 Sep., 08:27, setnma...@gmail.com wrote:
> I guess it has been about 13 or 14 years since I last looked at this newsgroup. I can't even really remember why I stopped browsing/contributing.
>

> It used to be full of keen tennis players talking technique, discussing the majors, etc. I can still remember one particularly heated discussion on the biomechanics of the kick serve that went on for weeks. ...

That sounds truly boring .... <yawn>

Max

Dave Hazelwood

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Sep 25, 2012, 9:00:36 PM9/25/12

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>which of course is RST's raison d'ętre."

i am so glad i missed the full version.

Whisper

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Sep 26, 2012, 5:38:32 AM9/26/12

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Anybody who can't learn a kick serve in 5 minutes, & has to discuss it
for weeks, must be clueless newbie and/or have too much time on their
hands. Learn the basics of tennis 'before' coming to rst is my
suggestion for newbies.

wen...@cix.compulink.co.uk

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Sep 26, 2012, 2:37:38 PM9/26/12

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In article <7a5adeb5-af0c-4c51...@googlegroups.com>,

People like you left.

wg

drew

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Sep 26, 2012, 3:24:42 PM9/26/12

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On Sep 26, 5:38 am, Whisper <beaver...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> Anybody who can't learn a kick serve in 5 minutes, & has to discuss it
> for weeks, must be clueless newbie and/or have too much time on their
> hands. Learn the basics of tennis 'before' coming to rst is my
> suggestion for newbies.

We all saw that picture you posted of yourself swatting at the ball
like the fat
spastic you are.

Take your own advice.

TennisGuy

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Sep 26, 2012, 4:07:14 PM9/26/12

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On Sep 25, 12:14 pm, Joe Ramirez <josephmrami...@netzero.com> wrote:

> "Usenet itself is now hopelessly inadequate for specialized, technical

> discussion.... The last bastion of Usenet is fan/BS posting,

> which of course is RST's raison d'être."

The most confounding part is that an otherwise highly intelligent
person such as yourself continues to post regularly to this hopelessly
inadequate wasteland (rst). :)

Patrick Kehoe

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Sep 27, 2012, 1:47:38 AM9/27/12

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Our common failing/flailing... :))

P

mimus

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Sep 27, 2012, 11:01:01 AM9/27/12

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On Sep 26, 2:37 pm, wen...@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> In article <7a5adeb5-af0c-4c51...@googlegroups.com>,

Were there ever many women's tennis fans contributing? I don't
remember more than about a dozen since about '99 . . . .

--

All of them apparently went to www.tennisforum.com