Sorry in advance for this rant, but I feel I need to.
I really liked this group. Since I switched to SolidWorks, I found in this group a constant source of help. Had my training on SW2000, and after some years with Pro-E moved to SW2007, changing from plastic modeling to sheet and milling techniques. So I almost had to learn everything again. In the google archives of this group I fond solutions on almost all my doubts about weldments, sheet folding, drawing etc. When I didn't found, I asked and got answer.
Came back after a few weeks, and found the group polluted with spam, flooding and trolling by a "clueless" user and his useless blog, followed by flames by most of the once-good users.
It is impossible to find interesting topics in the bulk. The number of good threads is fallen to its minimum. I guess lots of good users left, as I am doing.
Thanks to everyone who, consciously or not, provided me and other lurkers help or answered our distress calls.
Last one: can anyone suggest a good *moderated* forum about SW and cad in general?