RSC-Any News?

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:10:23 +0100, Joachim Trensz wrote:
> Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> ...
>> Newsgroups are like internet cockroaches... primitive, but
>> almost impossible to get rid of :-)
>
> That statement deserves to become a classic
>
> Achim

nice one Andrew! ;-)


Cheers uwe

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Andrew MacPherson wrote:
....

> Newsgroups are like internet cockroaches... primitive, but almost
impossible to get rid of :-)


That statement deserves to become a classic

Achim
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I wonder if cockroaches will be posting to newsgroups after the apocalypse?
Some might say they are already, witness the homosexual thread. :-)

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Uwe Schürkamp wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:09:55 +0100, Joachim Trensz wrote:
>
>>Interesting, though, that when RSC is down it doesn't take more than a few
>>minutes for someone to come here and holler. There must be a few people finding
>>it useful
>>
>
>
> in spite of my earlier tongue-in-cheek, humorous remark and my
> preference for RAS I find RSC quite useful. Folks were going out of
> their way trying to help me over there with the GTR online crashes
> when I whined about them. I guess it's more of a generation thing than
> anything else.
>
> Cheers & all the best,
>
> uwe

I know that you were joking. Never had any doubts about it

Achim

> nice one Andrew! ;-)

a.h.b-o-u ;-)

This Usenet NG and RSC compliment each other very well and each has its own
strengths and weaknesses. Everyone appreciates what you guys have done and
are doing for this community Phil.

Thanks for all of RSC's efforts!


Mitch


"Phil Lee" > wrote in message news:N_3ud.908$4b2.272@newsfe2->
>
> You know what, that really makes all the hard work, effort and personal
> financial investment myself and the other site admins have put into RSC
> feel really worthwhile. Maybe we should just forget about trying to get
> the site back online and pull the plug on the forum and websites we host
> for the community.
>
> Thanks once again for your support.
>
> Phil Lee
> RSC Administrator.
> http://www.rscnet.org
>
>

Actually Uwe, I was 99.99% certain that you were joking but some others
indicated that Newsgroups were more useful than Forums. There's no
question that there's a use for each and limitations in each and I have
my own preference (forums) of course. Maybe I have no sense of humour,
but it seems to me that there are more insults tossed around in the
newsgroups owing to the fact that at least this one isn't moderated
(AFAIK).

Anyway many of us and I in particular really miss my regular fix of RSC
and hope that they're back up soon.

"mcewena" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> >Yep, they found out that web forums suck and recommend using usenet
> >instead. The five-year scientific trial has now officially ended. ;-)
>
> oooh somehow I think that won't go unchallenged
>
> Couldn't agree more. btw.
>
> I know it's a labour of love for the guys who put it together and I
> appreciate the effort and intent but I can never find what I'm looking
> for in there, but I can find 50 different varieities of smilies...
>

Funny how I was just thinking about this the other day!

I've heard people refer to ras as a "dinosaur" etc and always wondered
why. It will always be here - never to be extinct.

Problem with RSC is that it's become as big as bananas and stuff is just
too hard to find. Though maybe that could be fixed with better indexing.

On 10 Dec 2004 09:18:18 -0800, wrote:
> Actually Uwe, I was 99.99% certain that you were joking but some others
> indicated that Newsgroups were more useful than Forums. There's no

Hi lesandbob,

this is the last time I am going to say sorry for a humorous post I
made in a good mood. sorry ;-)

Let's hope RSC will be back up soon, I do as much as the next guy.

uwe


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>Interesting, though, that when RSC is down it doesn't take >more than
a few
>minutes for someone to come here and holler. There must >be a few
people finding
>it useful

That works both ways

>This Usenet NG and RSC compliment each other very well and each has
its own
>strengths and weaknesses.


Agreed.

I'm sorry if my statement of preference was taken as some sort of
denigration of the effort that the RSCers put into their site.
However It is possible to be appreciative and frustrated at the same
time.

For simple text explanations of situations and follow up
comments/conversations I personally find the threaded text format of
most newsgroup viewers such as outlook easier to follow then any web
based forum (rsc's threaded layout helped some).

I find it fairly easy to ignore entire ng threads about Eldreds weight
problems or GWB's manipulation of the weather etc.. and because of the
text nature of the ng each actually significant post generally isn't
greeted with 14 to 140 posts of rolling/dancing/bouncing smilies saying
nothing more then "thank you" or "me too", or "I love you guys" like
(all?) webforums generally are. Invariably 30 posts down the smiley
chain is a correction/addition to the original information that gets
lost in the dross (and generates more smilies).

Not being able to post pictures/files is of course a major drawback of
ngs.

RSC frustrates me sometimes in particular because I know the answer I'm
looking for is likely in there somewhere but I can't seem to formulate
a query that can find it first time(s), and I invariably wait only 179
seconds before I try my second attempt. I understand the resource
limitations behind minimum query lengths and delays between queries but
that's of course a direct result of setting up an independent volunteer
forum and then loading it full of useful info, you're a victim of your
own success. The distributed nature of ngs and the corporate backing
behind google's archives makes searching faster (at least for me).

The other frustration that is entirely beyond the control of the RSC
guys is that even though the league is called RAScar half the members
post schedule/venue/setup info here and the other half post it in the
rsc forum meaning I had to look both places to get the complete picture


Art.