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Death of r.a.s.
Well it looks like this is a slow and painfull death.
From the 12,000 posts per month in 2000, we're now to almost less than 500. A thread or two per day if we exclude non-related cross-postings. Perhaps we shall all move on to rscnet, and sacrifice our freedom of speech on an ugly web board. I've seen my share of Usenet newsgroup death, and the decay rate here is pretty much in the same pattern as all those previous ones. Inevitable. R.I.P. -- -- François Ménard <ymenard> -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World... |
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Death of r.a.s.
ymenard wrote: > Well it looks like this is a slow and painfull death. > > From the 12,000 posts per month in 2000, we're now to almost less than 500. > A thread or two per day if we exclude non-related cross-postings. Perhaps > we shall all move on to rscnet, and sacrifice our freedom of speech on an > ugly web board. > > I've seen my share of Usenet newsgroup death, and the decay rate here is > pretty much in the same pattern as all those previous ones. Inevitable. > > > R.I.P. > I suspect two causes: that a number of ISPs are shutting down their NNTP servers, making free news a thing of the past, and the flame wars that seems prevalent on this and many groups. (I'm not saying htis group is as bad for flamewars as some others, but, hey, you know it happens here.) I look at the list of groups I'm subscribed to, and it shrinks every year. I'm now down to five groups. One of them is moderated, and two are extremely low volumn paddling groups. So there's r.a.s. and a guitar-related group. The guitar group seems to do pretty well at keeping things easy-going. Flames sputter out in no time. We get what we deserve, I guess. -- Darryl |
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Death of r.a.s.
That's sad. I remember all the flame wars you used to get into back in
the IndyCar II days. LOL What kind of stuff has been said here lately that you can't say on RSC? |
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Death of r.a.s.
ymenard wrote:
> Well it looks like this is a slow and painfull death. > > From the 12,000 posts per month in 2000, we're now to almost less than 500. > A thread or two per day if we exclude non-related cross-postings. Perhaps > we shall all move on to rscnet, and sacrifice our freedom of speech on an > ugly web board. > > I've seen my share of Usenet newsgroup death, and the decay rate here is > pretty much in the same pattern as all those previous ones. Inevitable. > > > R.I.P. Look at the date messages took a plunge and then look at the messages from that date. You will see someone named Mitch stirring up trouble and causing many people to leave. |
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"ymenard" > wrote in
: > Well it looks like this is a slow and painfull death. > > From the 12,000 posts per month in 2000, we're now to almost less than > 500. A thread or two per day if we exclude non-related cross-postings. > Perhaps we shall all move on to rscnet, and sacrifice our freedom of > speech on an ugly web board. > > I've seen my share of Usenet newsgroup death, and the decay rate here > is pretty much in the same pattern as all those previous ones. > Inevitable. > > > R.I.P. quality not quantity |
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ymenard wrote:
> Well it looks like this is a slow and painfull death. > > From the 12,000 posts per month in 2000, we're now to almost less than 500. > A thread or two per day if we exclude non-related cross-postings. Perhaps > we shall all move on to rscnet, and sacrifice our freedom of speech on an > ugly web board. > > I've seen my share of Usenet newsgroup death, and the decay rate here is > pretty much in the same pattern as all those previous ones. Inevitable. Not sure it is so painful. What remains is generally a core of generally sensible people that will respond quickly to a genuine request for info and can give an educated insight into sim racing developments. Many of the other forums is like trawling through treacle to find the relevant bits and regardless of the moderation is full of fanboy vs hater posts. There are just so many forums now. Taking LFS as an example RSC has minimal activity on this now, with the official LFS forum as the definitive place to go. We also have forums for most products - and there are a lot of products now compared with the good old days of Papy sim racers vs DGF It is the fragmentation of sim racing that is taking its toll on RAS IMHO. I am sure it will continue for some time yet though. Cheers Tony |
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rex roland wrote:
> Look at the date messages took a plunge and then look at the messages > from that date. You will see someone named Mitch stirring up trouble and > causing many people to leave. Well in the peak of 2000, when we had 12000 posts in one month Bruce was compelled to write on July 23rd 2000 > In all the years that I have been posting to RAS I have never been so > amazed at the behaviour of some as I have been over the past several > days. snip > I, for one, have nothing but contempt for the morals and behaviour of > some who have posted here over the last week. I feel as if I've > trodden in something rather nasty. So maybe it is the lack of flame wars that has seen the demise in posts! Not suggesting we want some, mind - I don't care about the number of posts. Cheers Tony |
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Been using Google newsgroups forever..not all that bad. I
actually prefer it. Used to be called DejaNews,I think. Here's the link http://groups.google.com/ Steve P Uwe Schürkamp wrote: > On 12 May 2006 19:50:32 -0700, Darryl wrote: > > I suspect two causes: that a number of ISPs are shutting down > > their NNTP servers, making free news a thing of the past, and the > > Well, there's always Google News. Granted a web interface to USENET is a > pain in the rear, much like those pesky web forums, but it's still > better than nothing. > > > We get what we deserve, I guess. > > I don't think RAS is going to go away anytime soon. We have quite a list > of die-hard regulars who'll continue to lurk here. > > All the best, Uwe > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61 |
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Death of r.a.s.
Mitch killed r.a.s. a long time ago...
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Death of r.a.s.
>"Tango" > wrote
> quality not quantity Erm... I've fast readed the threads for the past months, and I see the same thing as ever. There was and will always be quality here. Quantity ain't just here anymore. Time to move on... |
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