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| Jeff Stanton... |
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What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for several
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| Klaus D. Mikkelsen... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:08 am |
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Jeff Stanton skriver:
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What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for several
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There has now......
Klaus
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| Larry Blanchard... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:07 am |
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On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:04:15 -0400, Jeff Stanton wrote:
Quote: What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for
several days.
I've noticed the same thing. Did everyone else take a group vacation?
If so, I vehemently object to being left out  .
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| Rich... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:12 pm |
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On Oct 4, 12:07 pm, Larry Blanchard <lbla... at (no spam) fastmail.fm> wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:04:15 -0400, Jeff Stanton wrote:
What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for
several days.
I've noticed the same thing. Did everyone else take a group vacation?
If so, I vehemently object to being left out .
Sometimes, stuff does not happen. I very seldom ever find anything of
value here. I come back every few months. I belong to other mrr
groups and DCC groups that offer much more usable information.
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| Bob May... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:10 pm |
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When a bunch of nitpickers and potty mouths take to a group, it will
quicklly decrease in traffic as those who do that stuff keep snidely
denigrating the others as the only noes really on the group and they'll get
tired of eeach other and eventually leve, when nobody wles comes on to
ask questions for fear of being denigrated the same way. Maybe in a yer
or so, the traffic will pick up agaaain. I'll note that this group 3
years ago would havee 40-60 threads a day and we are now down to less
than 1.
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| Twibil... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:05 pm |
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On Oct 4, 4:10 pm, "Bob May" <bob... at (no spam) nethere.com> wrote:
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When a bunch of nitpickers and potty mouths take to a group, it will
quicklly decrease in traffic as those who do that stuff keep snidely
denigrating the others as the only noes really on the group and they'll get
tired of eeach other and eventually leve, when nobody wles comes on to
ask questions for fear of being denigrated the same way. Maybe in a yer
or so, the traffic will pick up agaaain. I'll note that this group 3
years ago would havee 40-60 threads a day and we are now down to less
than 1.
Usenet is slowly fading away -and that's true pretty much across the
board- but that's simply because (A) Usenet was here first, and (B)
since Usenet first evolved many other -and often more specialised and
flexible- online venues have developed -and these rarely require their
participants to use a newsreader with it's inherent limitations.
Most of the newer groups are moderated in one way or another, and that
*does* get rid of the pure trolls, but the brighter moderators also
know that if they're constantly threatening to plonk all of the
conflicting personalities on their group they'll probably chase away a
bunch of their most creative posters, so verbal conflict -if not
outright warfare- remains a fact of life on most online forums.
As evidence that moderating is not always an easy tightrope to walk,
*I* was a moderator for a motorcycle discussion board for a while, and
as we grew we kept adding more volunteer moderators to spread the load
around.
One day I saw a post from one of our brand-new moderators that stated
a "fact" that was really only his strongly-held (but mistaken)
opinion, and I pointed that out; whereupon he -not recognising that I
was a senior moderator and a founding member of the board- immediately
tried to ban me from the group for disagreeing with him.
The group's owner stepped in and chastised him moderately (ahem), but
the new guy continued to threaten to toss out anyone who argued with
him about anything, and we (the moderators and owner) eventually
decided to ask him to leave.
Had said doofus been the group's owner, he would have eventually ended
up owning a "group" composed only of himself and his two worshippers,
so you can see that surpression of all disagreement is neither
possible nor desirable.
Now: it would be nice if we lived in a world where everyone was polite
to each other all of the time, online or off, fruitloop or sane, but a
quick scan of the day's headlines will demonstrate that such a world
is not in the offing for the forseeable future, so we'd best try to
muddle through with what we've got.
If you don't care for the trolls, ignore them. If you have something
useful to contribute, please do so. Usenet can still be -and
frequently is- a useful venue for sharing information, but complaining
that a gift doesn't meet your high standards won't magically cause any
changes in Usenet.
All in all; the best thing you can do is try to abide by the old
bromide that states, "Lord, give me the strength to change the things
that I can, the forbearance to withstand the things I cannot, and the
wisdom to tell the difference".
~Pete |
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| Larry Blanchard... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:36 am |
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On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:05:47 -0700, Twibil wrote:
Quote: If you don't care for the trolls, ignore them. If you have something
useful to contribute, please do so. Usenet can still be -and frequently
is- a useful venue for sharing information, but complaining that a gift
doesn't meet your high standards won't magically cause any changes in
Usenet.
Good advice. We should all learn to use filters and kill files. Makes
Usenet a much friendlier place.
I'll post something to see if I can get a discussion going.
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| vista bill... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:35 pm |
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On Oct 4, 8:04 am, "Jeff Stanton" <jstan... at (no spam) hughes.net> wrote:
Quote: What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for several
days.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize Physicist
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I can recall around 10 years ago. There was Big John, <TOM>, Peter
King, Sherriff John, and numerous others. The group was very active
and offered helpful advise and suggestions for newcomers and everyone
else. A lot has changed over the years.
Bill
Bill's Railroad Empire |
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| Jim Keegan... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:59 am |
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"vista bill" <billsrrempire at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:64663815-116f-4b0c-beb0-0ff38aa49ecb at (no spam) m20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 4, 8:04 am, "Jeff Stanton" <jstan... at (no spam) hughes.net> wrote:
Quote: What's up with this newsgroup? There haven't been any posts here for
several
days.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity"
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize Physicist
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I can recall around 10 years ago. There was Big John, <TOM>, Peter
King, Sherriff John, and numerous others. The group was very active
and offered helpful advise and suggestions for newcomers and everyone
else. A lot has changed over the years.
Bill
Bill's Railroad Empire
And then there was Froggy to inject good information with a bit of humor,
always enjoyed Froggy and all the old gang.
Jim, still in the '50's on the CRI&P |
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| Larry Blanchard... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:37 am |
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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:59:01 +0000, Jim Keegan wrote:
Quote: "vista bill" <billsrrempire at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
I can recall around 10 years ago. There was Big John, <TOM>, Peter King,
Sherriff John, and numerous others. The group was very active and
offered helpful advise and suggestions for newcomers and everyone else.
A lot has changed over the years.
And then there was Froggy to inject good information with a bit of
humor, always enjoyed Froggy and all the old gang.
I'd still like to go see that RDC with the dedication to Big John, but I
doubt I'll ever make it that far east. If anyone does, and takes some
pictures of the plaques, I'd like to see them.
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| Rich... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:52 pm |
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| Ray Haddad... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:38 pm |
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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:37:13 -0500, Larry Blanchard
<lblanch at (no spam) fastmail.fm> wrote:
Quote: On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:59:01 +0000, Jim Keegan wrote:
"vista bill" <billsrrempire at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
I can recall around 10 years ago. There was Big John, <TOM>, Peter King,
Sherriff John, and numerous others. The group was very active and
offered helpful advise and suggestions for newcomers and everyone else.
A lot has changed over the years.
And then there was Froggy to inject good information with a bit of
humor, always enjoyed Froggy and all the old gang.
I'd still like to go see that RDC with the dedication to Big John, but I
doubt I'll ever make it that far east. If anyone does, and takes some
pictures of the plaques, I'd like to see them.
I recall seeing a picture of it shortly after it was dedicated.
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| Klaus D. Mikkelsen... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:00 pm |
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Rich skriver:
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There are many more on Yahoo, various scales, DCC, Spend a little time
searching Yahoo Groups.
Okay web based forums is not really my cup of tea.
Klaus
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Modelbane Europas hjemmeside: http://www.modelbaneeuropa.hadsten.dk
Min egen hjemmeside nu med nyt domæne http://www.moppe.dk
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| Charles Davis... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:29 pm |
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Klaus D. Mikkelsen wrote:
Quote: Rich skriver:
There are many more on Yahoo, various scales, DCC, Spend a little time
searching Yahoo Groups.
Okay web based forums is not really my cup of tea.
Klaus
I can understand the feeling, BUT the Group's archives may be useful
reading. YMMV
Chuck Davis |
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| Klaus D. Mikkelsen... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:41 pm |
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Charles Davis skriver:
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I can understand the feeling, BUT the Group's archives may be useful
reading. YMMV
Just like the r.m.r archive (aka. google groups).
Klaus
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Min egen hjemmeside nu med nyt domæne http://www.moppe.dk
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