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Old May 21st 11, 12:11 PM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
Malcolm Osborne
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Bert's remark in another post (Well, newsgroups are a thing of the 20th
century,) refers.

I had a look on Facebook - there are several Alfa Romeo pages there - must
still explore them some more.

The Alfa 156 page on FB seems to be mainly photos of owners cars,
contributions in several languages. Not nearly as good as this AR ng is (or
was!)

Picked up this Youtube link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWcFBe1L5QQ

Nearly as fast as you guys go 'round the M25?

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Old May 21st 11, 12:58 PM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
Catman
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On 21/05/2011 12:11, Malcolm Osborne wrote:
> Bert's remark in another post (Well, newsgroups are a thing of the 20th
> century,) refers.
>
> I had a look on Facebook - there are several Alfa Romeo pages there - must
> still explore them some more.
>
> The Alfa 156 page on FB seems to be mainly photos of owners cars,
> contributions in several languages. Not nearly as good as this AR ng is (or
> was!)


FB was never really designed for this kind of discussion, AFAIK. Usenet
really was built from the ground up.

The closest thing are the web forums, but once you've got used to a
decent newsreader, they seem (to me at least) hopelessly clunky. The
Maserati UK forum, for example, is IMHO really *really* poor to use. And
that's comparatively low traffic (at least the sections I read are)
There's no threading, that what counts IMHO.



And yet, they are popular cos most people don't know what the difference
is twixt email, www, usenet etc etc. So they think that's all there is.

Still, we mostly had a good run.

>
> Picked up this Youtube link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWcFBe1L5QQ
>
> Nearly as fast as you guys go 'round the M25?


Heh.

I reckon he short shifted at least twice, and once he must have barely
got the clutch up before he shifted down again. But it's *real* easy to
criticise from here


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Old May 22nd 11, 11:14 AM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
R C Nesbit
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Catman spoke:
> And yet, they are popular cos most people don't know what the difference
> is twixt email, www, usenet etc etc. So they think that's all there is.


Not forgeting that many people have short attention spans and cannot see
pictures in their heads.

> Still, we mostly had a good run.


30 years - do you think Facebook/Twitter will last that long?

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Old May 22nd 11, 11:20 AM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
Catman
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On 22/05/2011 11:14, R C Nesbit wrote:
> Catman spoke:
>> And yet, they are popular cos most people don't know what the difference
>> is twixt email, www, usenet etc etc. So they think that's all there is.

>
> Not forgeting that many people have short attention spans and cannot see
> pictures in their heads.
>
>> Still, we mostly had a good run.

>
> 30 years - do you think Facebook/Twitter will last that long?
>


Quite possibly, in some form, yes.

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