Is it just me?

Traffic seems to be extremely low on this newsgroup. Is it just my provider, or is interest waning?

Ed, NM2K

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Ed Cregger
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Can't tell from here, but you can always take a peek at this group in Google Groups for a reality check (compare what you see there with what you see from you provider).

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John Miller

No Ed, I don't think it's just your provider. I reckon people are slowly migrating to the web-based forums like rcgroups. I don't think this group (or the uk one) get anything like the volumes they used to. Eleven posts so far today, twenty three yesterday (UK times) and I'm sure I remember there being hundreds of posts here per day a few years ago.

When I first got internet access at home it was dial-up and I paid for the calls by the minute. So I'd dial-up, download my email, download all new posts on this and a couple of other newsgroups (whilst watching the minutes tick away and the pennies adding up!) then drop the connection. I could then read my mail and newsgroups at my leisure and write any replies before dialling-up again to send the replies. Using a web-based forum on a regular basis would have been out of the question due to cost. Then we got dial-up at a fixed "inclusive" rate and later broadband, so there's no longer a cost penalty for staying online for a long time.

I browse occasionally in rcgroups, but still prefer usenet.

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John Privett

Hi Ed -- Busy flying and repairing season?

Cheers -- \_________Lyman Slack________/ \_______Flying Gators R/C___/ \_____AMA 6430 LM____ / \___Gainesville FL_____/ Visit my Web Site at

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Lyman Slack

I see eleven new messages in the past 9 hours or so.

I have noticed that many of the names here also post on rc universe and/or rc groups.

I look at this group daily but don't usually see anything that interests me.

Then we get the occasional political or religious troll that generates hundreds of replies by the same few people and that makes it hard to find the eleven posts that 'might' be interesting.

Or someone asks the dreaded 'crystal swap' question and we get a week's worth of arguing cursing and name calling by a handful of 'usenet attorneys' and other 'experts'. I'm almost 100% convinced those posts are trolls also.

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Carrell

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:06:23 +0100, "John Privett" wrote in :

Agreed. I'm on newsguy.com.

Ed--I was out flying your MVVS 2.15 engine today. Starts, runs, flies like a champ. It's on a GP Patty Wagstaff Extra: .

I can't say enough nice things about the engine. It was sweeeeeeeeeeeet today!

Marty

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Martin X. Moleski, SJ

"Carrell" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Same thing has been happening on rec.motorcycles. I have the bandpass filters (kill file) set tight, what is left is not much. I think that is why private or "by membership" forums are becoming more popular. There is more control, they can cancel a troll or unwarranted flamer's membership.

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High Plains Thumper

Nope, not much traffic lately. I don't want to blame it on the constant arguing that seems to be going on in this group, but it doesn't help. Best, Ken.

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Kenneth D. Schillinger

In other words, they can influence what the public hears. They determine what is and is not acceptable for you to see and hear. Just another form of big brother. Welcome to socialism!

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Chuck Jones

intersting stuff and sometimes things that are of no interest to anyone... but maybe the hot weather..or maybe those who are taking a 4th of July weekend early...or working in the yard or whatever. Me, I check in here and R/C Universe everyday...sometimes I even get answers to my queries. Regards to all, Frank Schwartz AMA123 W4KFK Alive and very active at 79 years and building and flying R/C and still loving every phase of it....

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Frank Schwartz

All gone to rcgroups or rcuniverse m8.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Mmm. Not really. They just filter out the very worst of the noise. This is where you come to have a flame war. The seediest pub in town where the cops don't come.

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The Natural Philosopher

I am happy to hear it, Marty. I hope you get many, many good flights from that engine. It was a pretty one, for sure.

I miss my MVVS engines, but I'm trying to stay small this time around. My pit crew (Brenda, my wife) is not up to holding the large models during run up. Plus they intimidate her.

I "think" that our club passed a restraint requirement a while back. I'll have to check. Still, I'm going to try to keep my engines below one cubic inch in displacement. My one exception will be the Zenoah G26 that I bought for the Ultra Stick 120 Lite. I've flown many gas models, but most were other peoples planes. I was somehow delegated the 1/4 scale gas test pilot twenty some years ago. Whenever someone had a new gas plane to fly, I was the test pilot. It was a lot of fun. Now I want one of my own to actually finish and fly. The Ultra Stick 120 Lite is it.

I broke down and bought a G2300 last week or so ago. Gonna send that back tomorrow. I was bad...

I've always been interested in Delta flying wings. I just bought one of Hobby People's Delta 90 ARFs and an SK .80. After that I bought Bruce Tharpe's Delta Vortex kit.

I enjoy RC Universe, but I also like our newsgroup.

Ed, NM2K

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Ed Cregger

Well, that does make a lot of sense, Lyman. Why talk about flying when you can do the real thing? It's been too warm for me to do that, but I can't blame those for flying when they can.

Ed Cregger

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Ed Cregger

Hi Ed-

Yeah, it's just you .

I think a couple of other posters were on track as why the traffic is diminishing - one of the real benefits of this and other UseNet forums has been conservation of bandwidth, and that advantage is dropping in value as bandwidth becomes cheaper. I do think a waning of interest is also a factor. This forum has been mostly oriented toward 'traditional' IC powered RC models and club flying sites, and the real growth in our hobby/sport seems to be happening with electric power and models that can be flown outside of the club site venue. That trend to quiet electric power has been happening inside the club arena in clubs I belong to as well. Not knocking it, but rather joining in for my part. Anyway, I think if you make a visit to Ezone, you'll see what I am talking about, and where the young people we don't see at the club sites are. Threads hundreds of posts long, and a volume of traffic that is increasing at a much faster pace than the fall-off in traffic in this group. Model aviation is very much alive and well, and the discussion about it lively, but not so much in the form (or forum) that has been familiar to us.

Abel

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Abel Pranger

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:38:58 -0400, "Ed Cregger" wrote in :

Put another five flights on it today.

The engine mount worked out well, too.

I can understand that. I've got a lot of respect for that

20" APC! It makes a fair amount of wind.

Sounds like a good combo.

I'm looking forward to playing with the Renegade. It's been a long time since I've had a plane with retracts. The paint booth is half-finished--just needs a few hours of work to make it ready for some test runs.

I've stuck with the newsgroup since the fall of 1995. I like it well enough, even with some background noise.

Marty, KC2NEB

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Martin X. Moleski, SJ

Nah Ed, Most of us have moved on to moved on to the web based group do to the crap here in the newsgroups. The moderated forums harbor more plesent atmosphere and are less threatening tha rec.models.rc.air. Seems most do not really like reading the junk tha is passed around here anymore and have found that their questions ar answered with a quality answer rather than a bagger or belittlement

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starcad

That IMHO is only a matter of time!

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Chuck Jones

Problem is, the badgerers and belittlers are on those forums too. And if you watch over time, you'll see a slow relaxing of the restrictions. Just check out any AMA related thread and you'll see some of the old rec.models.rc.air showing itself. Or should I say, themselves! Just a matter of time!

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Chuck Jones

I think interest is waning since AOL dropped the Group. My link with it now is crummy and hard to navigate. I'm in RCU more and more and in here less and less. RCU is great. No flame wars, no badly foul language, no off topic posts, just good plane talk. You'll see me less and less in here.

Dr.1

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Dr1

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