4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
1:54 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:01 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Mar 4 2005, 10:56, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Not alt.comp.homebuilt? I think I looked there a while ago and gave up
when I saw how many PC posts there were. Plus comp.arch.hobbyist seems
to be totally dead (I don't know if that one was ever any good).
alt.folklore.computers is sort-of ok, but the thread length and topic
drift is the worst I've ever seen of any newsgroup or mailing list, so
reading is either a case of skimming through a ton of crap in a thread
or missing out on potentially useful stuff :(
As for this list... I don't know; I'm tempted to say there's no danger
of it turning into a PC support list ever. Subscribing to the list is
too much trouble for someone who doesn't have an interest in classic
machines and who just wants PC support help. Usenet's a different story;
it's easy to crosspost to a million groups whenever someone feels like
it.
And there *is* cctech for moderated posts after all, so the odd off-
topic post to cctalk seems no big deal to me (now at least; if it was
50% of traffic it'd annoy me!). Believe me, gun posts drive me nuts and
I have no desire to read them, but I just delete the occasional one that
crops up :)
cheers
Jules
I think many don't realize the damage that
can happen
when the group becomes a "Please fix my PC" group.
I watched this happen to a news group that had too many
people that tolerated such off topic post. From Jim's own
words, he thought that this was a general computer
group.> [ snip ]
FWIW, I'm in complete agreement with Dwight, and well remember the
newsgroup he means, having used it from 1994 until its eventual demise.
Actually, it's still there - but has become an alt.fix.my.pc group.