OT: message volume

About the same - nothing like the 100+ messages a day it used to be.

Jim.

Its been slow for a while now so you are probably getting everything. Bruce

I've received 26 since about the same time yesterday. I have a couple of "regulars" in my kill-file, so there likely were a few more.

-- Bill McC.

That's about what it has been lately since the religious and political crackpots and trolls seem to be momentarially quiet as are the nitwits who respond to their lunacy.

cat

But if those other 70 messages were nothing but hate and discontent, I'd say we are ahead...

fl@liner

Agreed!

The volume is much lower, but in proportion, the off-topic messages are also down! I like it!

Peteski

Not several years ago when there was a fair amount of humour from participants which could defuse a lot of the ranting and the worst you had to look out for was the occasional missive from Geg.

But the do-gooders and net nannies had their way and eventually got rid of the humour, and Sherriff John who dealt with the sock puppets, and now they've got the newsgroup they deserve.

Jim.

I don't recall that much of a problem. Especially compared to some other groups. I think there used to be close to 100 good posts every day.

The Yahoo groups may be causing part of the decline. They are closely focused on one aspect for the most part. Groups such as EarlyRail, HandLaidTrack, etc.. And I use and appreciate them. But a general purpose group such as r.m.r is also an asset. I hope it doesn't go away.

And I'm oftem bemused and dismayed by the number of people, otherwise computer-savvy, who have either never heard of Usenet or who turn up their noses at it. I suspect the latter group are deficient in reading/writing abilities, so they prefer pictures :-).

I'm waiting to see if the volume goes up when winter arrives in N.A..

Google posts stats here:

As you can see from the archive on that page, the number of monthly posts has been in a decline (compared to the same period in the previous year) since the fall of 2002, with only two exceptions.

- Mark

You just have to look at the list of 'this month's top posters' to see the problem, it's no longer an american group, many of the posts are cross posted from 'aus.model.rail' and who would want to read that more than once. Keith Make friends in the hobby. Visit Garratt photos for the big steam lovers.

Where does it say "rec.models.railroad" is a US group? It would be "rec.models.railroad.USA" if it were intended to be a US only group!

Regards, Greg.P. NZ

I believe he meant that where Americans post, they (the majority of them anyway) consider it their group. They (for the most part are unable to comprehend that there is a world outside of their borders, that is able to exist without their intervention or control. {;^)

Brian

Well, you do, for starters! :-)

Last month was the lowest in 10 years. :-(

You had insufficient information to reach that conclusion :-) which is incorrect! Keith Make friends in the hobby. Visit Garratt photos for the big steam lovers.

Brian, Its not an American group. Its a coalition of the willing. Bruce

Or Spanky would claim he has destroyed RMR.

Bruce

Bruce, I know it's not. I was speculating on the OP's meaning.

Brian

Bad Brian - no KFC or Michael Jackson videos for you tonight!