"Andrew MacPherson" > wrote in message
...
> dfg.myass@aol (David G Fisher's Left Testicle) wrote:
>
>> ..and all because a couple of hard drives failed.
>
> Well, I suspect if more of us had contributed more often they could have
> afforded a
> more robust/reliable solution. I did make a small contribution when it
> came back
> last time, but it was clear there was no big appetite (from myself or
> others) to
> contribute regularly.
>
> But then I was never a huge RSC visitor, although in the last year or so
> it became
> a useful place to keep in touch with iRacing when I wasn't signed up. I'll
> miss
> visiting there as an option, but every cloud has a silver lining. Maybe
> now more of
> us will be more inclined to post here.
>
> Mind you, I believe newsgroups are getting more 'popular' as pirates are
> elbowed
> off peer-to-peer. Eventually more newsgroup providers will get tired of
> hosting
> illegal files and make access even harder for legitimate text use.
>
> Of course most weeks who'd notice the difference between no posts because
> there's
> no server and no posts because there are no posters? :-)
>
> Andrew McP

I think they ****ed a lot of people off with their gay moderation system.