Google has some new newsgroup features that allow you rate posts among other things. I doubt many will make use of it but there is another feature: 'About this newsgroup' which shows the monthly posting activity and the most prolific posters:
Something odd about this group though. Most newsgroups have shown decreasing activity. Newer web based forums I imagine: Yahoo and the like. I've heard the diminishing numbers described as the heat-death of usenet. But eyeballing the monthly numbers rbm appears to be holding its' own at least. Of course activity tails off somewhat in the winter. 2005 was down somewhat from 2004 - and 2004 was an all time high - but nowhere near the steady declines that many other ngs have experienced.
Google has some new newsgroup features that allow you rate posts among other things. I doubt many will make use of it but there is another feature: 'About this newsgroup' which shows the monthly posting activity and the most prolific posters:
Something odd about this group though. Most newsgroups have shown decreasing activity. Newer web based forums I imagine: Yahoo and the like. I've heard the diminishing numbers described as the heat-death of usenet. But eyeballing the monthly numbers rbm appears to be holding its' own at least. Of course activity tails off somewhat in the winter. 2005 was down somewhat from 2004 - and 2004 was an all time high - but nowhere near the steady declines that many other ngs have experienced.
Maybe high gas prices are helping - and of course quantity does not necessarily indicate quality.
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Try getting into the seriously scientific newsgroups like Physics, advanced math, relativity, or any Ph.D. heavy crowd and you will see many more posts and most of those are totally pompous. After looking those over I have decided you bicyclists are a much more easy going lot, even if there are a few rabble rousers, Sorni, Zoot, more un-named. Bill
Try getting into the seriously scientific newsgroups like Physics, advanced math, relativity, or any Ph.D. heavy crowd and you will see many more posts and most of those are totally pompous.
A quick google shows that you've been told to [censored] and stop bullshitting there, too.
Hey, doofus, all a quick Google shows is how many pompous asses there are on those groups. Amazing how a Ph.D. from dumb f76k U. will give someone a good case of POMPOUS. Bill
