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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