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Motorcycle Forum / General / Motorcycles / June 2008The demise of Reeky
Well friends, it's been a great ride... but it seems Usenet is in decline, and may soon fade away as the big ISP's discontinue service one by one. I hope someone sets up www.reeky.blog or something while there's still time, so we can all meet again, some sunny day. Sean_Q_ '99 FLH >but it seems Usenet is in >decline, and may soon fade away www.giganews.com You'll have to pay a few cents a day for it, or www.supernews.com ditto. Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll never even notice when a few short sighted ISPs drop the alt.* newsgroups. My ISP has never had good coverage of reeky or anything else on Usenet. The commercial providers are much better at it. -- Jack > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll never > even notice when a few short sighted ISPs drop the alt.* newsgroups. My ISP has > never had good coverage of reeky or anything else on Usenet. The commercial > providers are much better at it. True, but how many people (and in our case, riders) are going to pay for Usenet service? Newsgroups also wither away for lack of participants, and it seems more are leaving than joining. r.m.victory for instance has about zero posting volume; the Tolkien groups that used to be very lively a few years ago are almost moribund. I know people who are fairly savvy about the WWW and yet have never even heard of Usenet. (Some even think the Web *is* the Internet). Usenet, and Reeky in particular may or may not disappear but could well decline to the point where it's the sole abode of cranks, trolls and spammers unless new people join -- and yet it's hard to attract newcomers when (1) the service is obscure, (2) it needs special client software and (3) costs money! SQ >> Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll >> never [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > SQ I think most of us already do. I pay 10 euros a year for text only newsgroups. http://news.individual.net  SignatureAndrew 00 Daytona 00 Speed Triple 71 Kawi H1 05 Squiddo > I think most of us already do. > I pay 10 euros a year for text only newsgroups. > http://news.individual.net Me, too. Earthlink had gotten too unreliable. Signaturesjs, news server admin since '87 > True, but how many people (and in our case, riders) are going to pay for > Usenet service? For 10 bucks a year? Depends how tight they are. > Newsgroups also wither away for lack of participants, > and it seems more are leaving than joining. r.m.victory for instance [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I know people who are fairly savvy about the WWW and yet have never even > heard of Usenet. (Some even think the Web *is* the Internet). I've encountered this as well. Bizarre. SignatureBMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F, SL125 & SH50 Yamaha XT600E chateau dot murray at idnet dot com "What you're proposing to do will involve a lot of time and hassle for no tangible benefit." > > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll never > > even notice when a few short sighted ISPs drop the alt.* newsgroups. My ISP has [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > SQ You can see from my address that I posted through Deja and I now post through Google. It works fine for me and it's free. I have seen some slams at people for posting through Google. Granted, some of the people using the service may be lacking, but I think the service is fine. What's the problem with it, anyone? Bruce > > > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll never > > > even notice when a few short sighted ISPs drop the alt.* newsgroups. My ISP has [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Even OE express is a more usuable, tunable tool than Google... <ducks runs> -- Keith >> > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and you'll never >> > even notice when a few short sighted ISPs drop the alt.* newsgroups. My ISP has [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >people using the service may be lacking, but I think the service is >fine. What's the problem with it, anyone? If I remember correctly, Google uses Printed Quotable encoding. Outlook Express fails to add attribute markers when replying to the PQ encoding. That's not necessarily Googles fault, but it is a problem. All of those threads containing fried attributes are Google-OE exchanges. Robert >>> > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and >>> > you'll never [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Robert ------------ Reeky is changing - not dying. Though, for some folks that liked it the way it was, there is little difference between changing and dying. Ed Cregger > >>> > Change your news server from news.yourISP.com to one of those and > >>> > you'll never [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Makes you feel bad for them, know what I mean? Things chage and you either accept it or end up bitter, lonely, drinking too much and sitting in your cabin cleaning guns and eating MRE's every day. -- Keith >>but it seems Usenet is in >>decline, and may soon fade away [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > Jack news.datemas.de free, no graphic groups > Well friends, it's been a great ride... but it seems Usenet is in > decline, and may soon fade away as the big ISP's discontinue service > one by one. > > I hope someone sets up www.reeky.blog or something while there's > still time, so we can all meet again, some sunny day. www.news.individual.net Costs about 12 bucks for a year. No binary ngs, but who cares? SignatureBMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F, SL125 & SH50 Yamaha XT600E chateau dot murray at idnet dot com "What you're proposing to do will involve a lot of time and hassle for no tangible benefit." > Well friends, it's been a great ride... but it seems Usenet is in > decline, and may soon fade away as the big ISP's discontinue service [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Sean_Q_ > '99 FLH Usenet and listserv were two of the original Internet services. Blogs, wikis, etc are newer. Social networking has become the norm with facebook, myspace, etc. Texting over phones is taking the place of IM. I remember the days before the commerical internet of the 90's, Google, Deja, etc when you had to use specialized search engines more akin to FTP than Google to find usenet groups and how most of them were academic in nature and in foreign languages. With all the space and management requirements for usenet, it wou;dn't surprise me to see ISP's drop it. My ISP still has usenet, but has only carried 55,000 groups even though there are 5 or 10x that amount. Some ISPs have agreed recently to cut out NGs related to or used for child porn. So it seems the trend is away from usenet not towards it. Usenet will never go away entirely, but as fewer and fewer ISPs carry them, usenet may fade back into what they once were: SIGs housed at universities that you had to hunt down to find. Greg On Jun 23, 3:32 am, Sean_Q_ <nos...@no.sapm> wrote: > Well friends, it's been a great ride... but it seems Usenet is in > decline, and may soon fade away as the big ISP's discontinue service [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Sean_Q_ > '99 FLH Usenet and listserv were two of the original Internet services. Blogs, wikis, etc are newer. Social networking has become the norm with facebook, myspace, etc. Texting over phones is taking the place of IM. I remember the days before the commerical internet of the 90's, Google, Deja, etc when you had to use specialized search engines more akin to FTP than Google to find usenet groups and how most of them were academic in nature and in foreign languages. With all the space and management requirements for usenet, it wou;dn't surprise me to see ISP's drop it. My ISP still has usenet, but has only carried 55,000 groups even though there are 5 or 10x that amount. Some ISPs have agreed recently to cut out NGs related to or used for child porn. So it seems the trend is away from usenet not towards it. Usenet will never go away entirely, but as fewer and fewer ISPs carry them, usenet may fade back into what they once were: SIGs housed at universities that you had to hunt down to find. Greg yeah. yeah. we might fade back into what we once were too Greg. Good post. P On 23 Jun 2008, oasysco wrote in news:c906b3bb-6f50-4245-84c6-7c5d290d2a88@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.co m > Usenet will never go away entirely, but as fewer and fewer ISPs > carry them, usenet may fade back into what they once were: SIGs > housed at universities that you had to hunt down to find. > > Greg As a veteran of newsgroups since 1996 (and owner of a 1995 Nighthawk 750), I wouldn't mind seeing Usenet fade back to what it was in the 90s - the glory years for Usenet and motorcycles! SignatureLew > I wouldn't mind seeing Usenet fade back to what it was in the >90s - the glory years for Usenet and motorcycles! Anybody heard from Janice Chung lately? -- Jack > > I wouldn't mind seeing Usenet fade back to what it was in the > >90s - the glory years for Usenet and motorcycles! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > -- > Jack I'm too young <cough> to know her or of her. > > > I wouldn't mind seeing Usenet fade back to what it was in the > > >90s - the glory years for Usenet and motorcycles! [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I'm too young <cough> to know her or of her. No, but I have everything she ever wrote archived. And lots of Flashes' stuff as well. And other wonderful gems from rec/ba,moto As far as reeky goes... This is my 18 year old 'Wilsons' police style leather jacket. I proudly wear my tailored jean vest over top of it carrying my club patch, The club I've been proud to be a member of for the last nine years. The club has OG roots all the way back to 1953. Our motto? "It's not what you ride, it's that you ride." Chapters in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and SLO. http://www.badcatracing.com/jacket1.jpg This is what's under that vest, it's been there since the OG KoTM Artie (rest his soul) cranked out the original run of the biggies back around 1993. It's the -first- Motorcycle Club I was in, and even to this very day I'm damn proud to fly it's colors. http://www.badcatracing.com/jacket1.jpg Salad days are salad days for a reason, times change and you reflect back on how good you had it back then. -Mike- 'Hardcore' :Well friends, it's been a great ride... but it seems Usenet is in :decline, and may soon fade away as the big ISP's discontinue service [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] :Sean_Q_ :'99 FLH Newsguy.com --- Small town person clinging to guns out of bitterness |
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