Wow, there were only 11 new messages on the group today. I wonder if this is a new low. I can remember when rms had 200=300 new messages a day. There was a lull in the summer, but everyone said that was merely the season, and traffic would pick up in the winter. Are modelers a dying breed, or is it just that everyone has deserted rms for genre-specific web discussion groups?
Building all genres, I always opposed moves to split rms. Now, even though it has not split, the effect seems to be the same :-(
Ah, the good old days. :-) I almost never post here anymore, but I do still read it everyday. Heck, I haven't even built anything in over a year. Can't even afford to buy more than one or two car models a year right now, and my real stash is still out in Phoenix. The last model I actually completed was a biplane, and that wasn't even painted.My wife was always saying I never built anything I bought, so I bought and built that one(was only like $3 on clearance) just to prove I could. I spent a lot of money getting my 1:1 1969 Mustang kit (still missing pieces) moved here to Akron a year ago, and it is just sitting in the garage(an unheated un-electified garage, not the best thing to have in Ohio in winter)
I do think you are right about people going to more specific sites. This has become almost completely an aircraft group. Not that it wasn't the majority before, but of the people still posting here regularly it seems that those are the ones left. There used to be a decent mix of all types, even figures.
I haven't gone to the car sites yet much. Don't even know of many. Haven't felt the need to look for them. I will read the ScaleAuto site when I get the monthly email from them, but I seem to forget about them otherwise.
I always liked the group here, with the TPC, Dan's Mon-Key, people selling boxes of left over parts cheap, and all the stuff we used to have fun with. I guess I just stick around for nostalgia, and hoping that something fun happens.
Kind of like going to an old neighborhood and hoping you run into a friend. Even if you don't, you still get a good feeling.
Although the number of messages has dropped, I still regard this as the best of the groups that I subscribe to. If I need information that my references can't provide, this is the first place that I think of as a source of well informed help. I'd hate to be without it; good friends are worth keeping.
Whre else can you get tips, questions answered, cat stories, wife stories, updates on stuff happening around the world, and (unfortunately) the troll crap? All with humor and civility - mostly (grinning)
Many never found their way back here when AOL, MSN, etc. ended their support for newsgroups. That is a real shame. As indicated above this is a nice little community. I will continue to support it until it goes away (:>
Funny, I have about 35 messages here. As far as specific sites, I know of them but I don't go there much and don't enjoy myself as much there as I do here. We have picked up one or two new people here. I don't think we're going to wither away completely. We'll probably maintain this level of hardcore wackos. :)
Of course, that means they each have to check several other sites a day. If you are looking for stuff on airbrushes, glue, or other general stuff, you need to hunt around a lot.
I'm sticking here. One group, many subtopics. I'll stay till it gets to one or zero messages per day. But, with the low number of posts, it is not as great a resource as it used to be. I still talk it up at club meetings and such, though.
Hmmm. I stopped using my ISP and a newsreader because I found I was not getting all the messages. I am now using the Google Group interface. Looks like GG is ALSO not getting all the messages. I tried several other third party servers, none of which worked very well. I am at a loss now on how to get to Usenet and get all the messages!
quite simple, pay the 10 lousy bucks a month for a real news server. you are getting what you pay for. usenet isn't free anymore. i reccomend easy news because they have an online server if you want tunes or movies. and they get the mesages.
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