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I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it dead, or is my
provider not cooperating?

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It's dead. :) Dead as a doornail...

Op 11-02-12 19:51, BK schreef:
> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it dead, or is my
> provider not cooperating?
>
>

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On 2/11/2012 1:51 PM, BK wrote:
> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it dead, or is my
> provider not cooperating?
>
>

spring is only a couple of months away. perhaps things will bloom once
again...

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Christopher Muto > wrote:

> On 2/11/2012 1:51 PM, BK wrote:
>> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it
>> dead, or is my provider not cooperating?
>
> spring is only a couple of months away. perhaps things will bloom
> once again...

Just one theory..... the "C" Miata is a nice car, the "A" and "B"
Miatas are much more than nice cars, they are objects of passion to
many of us.....

Could the group be dying due to lack of interest and the "C" Miata is
the reason?


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On 2/12/2012 6:14 PM, XS11E wrote:
> Christopher > wrote:
>
>> On 2/11/2012 1:51 PM, BK wrote:
>>> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it
>>> dead, or is my provider not cooperating?
>>
>> spring is only a couple of months away. perhaps things will bloom
>> once again...
>
> Just one theory..... the "C" Miata is a nice car, the "A" and "B"
> Miatas are much more than nice cars, they are objects of passion to
> many of us.....
>
> Could the group be dying due to lack of interest and the "C" Miata is
> the reason?
>
>

the age of the car certainly means fewer of them on the road, but the
death of newsgroups is the result of internet service providers no
longer including it for free with internet server. they have decided it
is a unnecessary cost that they can cut without repercussions and a
liability to host content that are potentially copyright violations (not
groups like this but ones that have binary files, scores of posts that
when combined and decoded become movies, music, and video games once
again). the trend is to use web site forums, which are popular for
volkswagon (vwvortex), and jeep, and fords, but not miata...

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:15:26 -0500, Christopher Muto wrote in
rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata:

>On 2/12/2012 6:14 PM, XS11E wrote:
>> Christopher > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/11/2012 1:51 PM, BK wrote:
>>>> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it
>>>> dead, or is my provider not cooperating?
>>>
>>> spring is only a couple of months away. perhaps things will bloom
>>> once again...
>>
>> Just one theory..... the "C" Miata is a nice car, the "A" and "B"
>> Miatas are much more than nice cars, they are objects of passion to
>> many of us.....
>>
>> Could the group be dying due to lack of interest and the "C" Miata is
>> the reason?
>>
>>
>
>the age of the car certainly means fewer of them on the road, but the
>death of newsgroups is the result of internet service providers no
>longer including it for free with internet server. they have decided it
>is a unnecessary cost that they can cut without repercussions and a
>liability to host content that are potentially copyright violations (not
>groups like this but ones that have binary files, scores of posts that
>when combined and decoded become movies, music, and video games once
>again). the trend is to use web site forums, which are popular for
>volkswagon (vwvortex), and jeep, and fords, but not miata...

All true, but there are http://mx5cartalk.com/forum/ and
http://forum.miata.net/vb/ and http://www.miataturbo.net/ and
http://www.mazdatalkforum.com/ .

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Christopher Muto > wrote:

> the age of the car certainly means fewer of them on the road, but
> the death of newsgroups is the result of internet service
> providers no longer including it for free with internet server.

Irrelevent, free news servers carry this group and most of the regulars
have been here since ISPs dumped newsgroups.

I still think it's because many have gone to the "C" Miata and, while
it's a nice car, it's nothing anyone would get passionate about.

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On 2012-02-12, XS11E > wrote:
> Christopher Muto > wrote:
>
>> On 2/11/2012 1:51 PM, BK wrote:
>>> I don't have anything from this group in over a month. Is it
>>> dead, or is my provider not cooperating?
>>
>> spring is only a couple of months away. perhaps things will bloom
>> once again...
>
> Just one theory..... the "C" Miata is a nice car, the "A" and "B"
> Miatas are much more than nice cars, they are objects of passion to
> many of us.....
>
> Could the group be dying due to lack of interest and the "C" Miata is
> the reason?

I've owned an A and currently own a B. [And before that I owned an
Alfa Romeo Spyder which I bought after I saw a Miata and found out I
couldn't afford one]. The B is getting a bit long in the tooth. Sad
to say it won't be replaced by a C. I just don't like them that much,
and I find I'm less tolerant of the heat and sun than I was 30 years
ago when I started driving convertibles. I'm thinking a test drive of
a Subaru BRZ might be in order this spring. Reviews of the BRZ always
seem to mention Miatas. :)

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at pre-MEDITATED and
gmail.com pre-RAPHAELITE!!

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On 2012-02-13, Michael Bednarek > wrote:

>>the age of the car certainly means fewer of them on the road, but the
>>death of newsgroups is the result of internet service providers no
>>longer including it for free with internet server. they have decided it
>>is a unnecessary cost that they can cut without repercussions and a
>>liability to host content that are potentially copyright violations (not
>>groups like this but ones that have binary files, scores of posts that
>>when combined and decoded become movies, music, and video games once
>>again). the trend is to use web site forums, which are popular for
>>volkswagon (vwvortex), and jeep, and fords, but not miata...
>
> All true, but there are http://mx5cartalk.com/forum/ and
> http://forum.miata.net/vb/ and http://www.miataturbo.net/ and
> http://www.mazdatalkforum.com/ .

Bah. Web forums. What a waste of time -- the UIs are horrible.
Setting a mailing list and a gateway between the Usenet group and the
mailing list might be a good idea.

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at watching?
gmail.com

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Grant Edwards > wrote:

> Bah. Web forums. What a waste of time -- the UIs are horrible.

Amen.

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