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Is anybody reading this NG?
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"David E. Ross" wrote: On 10/19/2020 1:28 PM, Victor Manta wrote: "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The last posting on RCSD was on 5/15/2020, then nothing newer came... Thanks to only two collectors who participated in this thread. Of course, it is disappointing to see how this once so popular NG has "melted" to the point where it has become rather insignificant. It was also strange to notice that even in these conditions of quasi anonimity the amount and frequency of themes OFF TOPIC added was surprisingly high. Anyway, have fun with stamp collecting and stay safe! Victor Manta [begin rant] It's not merely this newsgroup. Many newsgroups used to have quite robust, on-topic discussions. That seems to have ended. And that is very sad. NNTP (network news transport protocol) has a large advantage over Web-based forums. A Web-based forum is owned and controlled by whoever owns the Web site. On the other hand, newsgroups propagate over many NNTP servers. If one NNTP server fails or the owner decides to shut it down, we can always go to another server without missing anything. Similarly, if the owner of a Web-based forum decides to censor messages arbitrarily, nothing can be done about it. No one NNTP server operator can block what is propagating among the other servers. Yes, there are moderated newsgroups; but often, there are multiple moderators for a newsgroup limiting the ability of one person to be a censor. [end rant] This newsgroup is in my subscription list, but this is the first time I've ever posted to it. Usenet in general has been losing popularity over the years. I started on Usenet back in 1983 in college. Picked it up again in the late '90s, and have been a regular subscriber to several groups since then. Some of the binary groups get a lot of traffic, but discussion groups are pretty much non-existent anymore. I subscribe to a discussion group related to a band that I like, but it seems like it died about 15 years ago. There are still posts to it, but they are from psychotic people ranting about politics instead of discussing the band. Stamp collecting in general has also seen a major decline in popularity. I'm 55 years old, and I go to stamp shows a few times a year. We have one locally that's once a year that used to draw dozens of vendors and a couple thousand people. Last year, it was noticeably smaller. I overheard one vendor saying that at least half a dozen vendors from the previous year had either died, or were in such poor health that they had retired. At the shows I go to, I am usually by far the youngest person there (as I said, I'm 55). There are websites devoted to stamp collecting that get a fair amount of traffic. I think that's where most collectors are going. |
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On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 4:49:52 PM UTC-4, me wrote:
In article , "David E. Ross" wrote: On 10/19/2020 1:28 PM, Victor Manta wrote: "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The last posting on RCSD was on 5/15/2020, then nothing newer came... Thanks to only two collectors who participated in this thread. Of course, it is disappointing to see how this once so popular NG has "melted" to the point where it has become rather insignificant. It was also strange to notice that even in these conditions of quasi anonimity the amount and frequency of themes OFF TOPIC added was surprisingly high. Anyway, have fun with stamp collecting and stay safe! Victor Manta [begin rant] It's not merely this newsgroup. Many newsgroups used to have quite robust, on-topic discussions. That seems to have ended. And that is very sad. NNTP (network news transport protocol) has a large advantage over Web-based forums. A Web-based forum is owned and controlled by whoever owns the Web site. On the other hand, newsgroups propagate over many NNTP servers. If one NNTP server fails or the owner decides to shut it down, we can always go to another server without missing anything. Similarly, if the owner of a Web-based forum decides to censor messages arbitrarily, nothing can be done about it. No one NNTP server operator can block what is propagating among the other servers. Yes, there are moderated newsgroups; but often, there are multiple moderators for a newsgroup limiting the ability of one person to be a censor. [end rant] This newsgroup is in my subscription list, but this is the first time I've ever posted to it. Usenet in general has been losing popularity over the years. I started on Usenet back in 1983 in college. Picked it up again in the late '90s, and have been a regular subscriber to several groups since then. Some of the binary groups get a lot of traffic, but discussion groups are pretty much non-existent anymore. I subscribe to a discussion group related to a band that I like, but it seems like it died about 15 years ago. There are still posts to it, but they are from psychotic people ranting about politics instead of discussing the band. Stamp collecting in general has also seen a major decline in popularity. I'm 55 years old, and I go to stamp shows a few times a year. We have one locally that's once a year that used to draw dozens of vendors and a couple thousand people. Last year, it was noticeably smaller. I overheard one vendor saying that at least half a dozen vendors from the previous year had either died, or were in such poor health that they had retired. At the shows I go to, I am usually by far the youngest person there (as I said, I'm 55). There are websites devoted to stamp collecting that get a fair amount of traffic. I think that's where most collectors are going. |
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On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 4:49:52 PM UTC-4, me wrote:
In article , "David E. Ross" wrote: On 10/19/2020 1:28 PM, Victor Manta wrote: "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The last posting on RCSD was on 5/15/2020, then nothing newer came... Thanks to only two collectors who participated in this thread. Of course, it is disappointing to see how this once so popular NG has "melted" to the point where it has become rather insignificant. It was also strange to notice that even in these conditions of quasi anonimity the amount and frequency of themes OFF TOPIC added was surprisingly high. Anyway, have fun with stamp collecting and stay safe! Victor Manta [begin rant] It's not merely this newsgroup. Many newsgroups used to have quite robust, on-topic discussions. That seems to have ended. And that is very sad. NNTP (network news transport protocol) has a large advantage over Web-based forums. A Web-based forum is owned and controlled by whoever owns the Web site. On the other hand, newsgroups propagate over many NNTP servers. If one NNTP server fails or the owner decides to shut it down, we can always go to another server without missing anything. Similarly, if the owner of a Web-based forum decides to censor messages arbitrarily, nothing can be done about it. No one NNTP server operator can block what is propagating among the other servers. Yes, there are moderated newsgroups; but often, there are multiple moderators for a newsgroup limiting the ability of one person to be a censor. [end rant] This newsgroup is in my subscription list, but this is the first time I've ever posted to it. Usenet in general has been losing popularity over the years. I started on Usenet back in 1983 in college. Picked it up again in the late '90s, and have been a regular subscriber to several groups since then. Some of the binary groups get a lot of traffic, but discussion groups are pretty much non-existent anymore. I subscribe to a discussion group related to a band that I like, but it seems like it died about 15 years ago. There are still posts to it, but they are from psychotic people ranting about politics instead of discussing the band. Stamp collecting in general has also seen a major decline in popularity. I'm 55 years old, and I go to stamp shows a few times a year. We have one locally that's once a year that used to draw dozens of vendors and a couple thousand people. Last year, it was noticeably smaller. I overheard one vendor saying that at least half a dozen vendors from the previous year had either died, or were in such poor health that they had retired. At the shows I go to, I am usually by far the youngest person there (as I said, I'm 55). There are websites devoted to stamp collecting that get a fair amount of traffic. I think that's where most collectors are going. |
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On 08/10/2020 22:24, Victor Manta wrote:
The last posting on RCSD was on 5/15/2020, then nothing newer came... I still remember that a long time ago there were here over 1000 posting in a month. Victor Manta, PWO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization & Abusives: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a look occasionally, but with many internet chat areas this idea of using newsgroups has declined Best wishes Tony -- Tony Clayton www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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Greetings from Tokyo. Stamp hound swamped with mostly used Japanese from
1960's to present. Just rediscovered usenet after many many years. Glad to see this is still here! Any lurkers? |
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