Who also reads BROL forums?

"Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

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Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums at BROL. I thought I was
maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to me that the majority of us read both, so there
isn't much gained in posting to both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

Read em back to back.

"Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums at BROL. I thought I was
maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to me that the majority of us read both, so there
isn't much gained in posting to both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

Read em back to back.

Rob Rudeski said:

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

I read

Rob Rudeski said:

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

I read

Yep, I try to read all venues.

Rmh "Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums

at

Quoted message said:

BROL. I thought I was maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to

me

Quoted message said:

that the majority of us read both, so there isn't much gained in posting

to

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both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

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Rob Rudeski Trenton, GA RANS V2

Yep, I try to read all venues.

Rmh "Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums

at

Quoted message said:

BROL. I thought I was maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to

me

Quoted message said:

that the majority of us read both, so there isn't much gained in posting

to

Quoted message said:

both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

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Rob Rudeski Trenton, GA RANS V2

Me too, I read and enjoy them both, along with my local SFRR and Bacchetta Yahoo talk group sites.
Ken aka EZ Biker :-) Pompano Beach, Fl. (Aero & GRR Ti Pilot)

"Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums

at

Quoted message said:

BROL. I thought I was maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to

me

Quoted message said:

that the majority of us read both, so there isn't much gained in posting

to

Quoted message said:

both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

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Rob Rudeski Trenton, GA RANS V2

Yes, BROL lurker here. Also sometimes post under the "Recumbent" topic at bikeforums.netbikeforums.netOpen ↗

Eddie "Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums at BROL. I thought I was
maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to me that the majority of us read both, so there
isn't much gained in posting to both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

I do and I got myself into trouble for reposting something over there that I got from over here. I
like the way this thread is going soooo vertically in lieu of diagonally.

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Joel Wilson Fort Lauderdale
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"Rob Rudeski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

In the past, I've posted questions both to this NG as well as the forums

at

Quoted message said:

BROL. I thought I was maximizing my coverage, but the thought occurred to

me

Quoted message said:

that the majority of us read both, so there isn't much gained in posting

to

Quoted message said:

both places.

So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

--
Rob Rudeski Trenton, GA RANS V2

Quoted message said:

Yes, BROL lurker here. Also sometimes post under the "Recumbent" topic at
bikeforums.netbikeforums.netOpen ↗

I glance at BROL and this newsgroup, but do most reading/posting at the above. Find BROL forums a
little too "SWB rah-rah" for me. Find this newsgroup a little too off-topic to be very useful.

BikeForums posters seem more focused and answer questions more directly than other (IMO). I also
visit the commute, bike mechanics, and safety sections of BikeForums. Very helpful.

I read this usenet newsgroup, but I currently don't read any www forums inculding BROL.

Am I the only one who would far prefer to use an effective news reader over a brain dead www
interface that I have no control over?

Yes you must be the only one, because the web based forums have some twenty-first century niceties
that newsgroup boards lack, like better organization, Email notification, being able to edit typos
after the fact, and some of the smilies transfer over to my face. I read newsgroups, but I feel that
for better or worse, most are being replaced by web based boards

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Joel Wilson Fort Lauderdale
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"George MacKenzie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I read this usenet newsgroup, but I currently don't read any www forums inculding BROL.

Am I the only one who would far prefer to use an effective news reader over a brain dead www
interface that I have no control over?

George MacKenzie said:

I read this usenet newsgroup, but I currently don't read any www forums inculding BROL.

Am I the only one who would far prefer to use an effective news reader over a brain dead www
interface that I have no control over?

In my experience, all of the web forums are annoyingly slow to use with a dial-up connection.

Tom Sherman - Near the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers

George MacKenzie said:

Am I the only one who would far prefer to use an effective news reader

Nope. I can't stand using web based forums. I might Google from work once in a while because our
firewall won't let my connect to my news server.

During the Tour de France, some guy from cyclingforums.com gave me grief because I started a thread
that duplicated his. Of course, he was clueless to the fact that it took several hours for his post
to make it to usenet. Sheeesh.

I, however, have no problem with people using them who are comfortable with it. To each his own.

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ai4i said:

Yes you must be the only one, because the web based forums have some twenty-first century niceties
that newsgroup boards lack, like better organization, Email notification, being able to edit typos
after the fact, and some of the smilies transfer over to my face. I read newsgroups, but I feel
that for better or worse, most are being replaced by web based boards

Perhaps you've never encountered an effective news reader that'll allow you to do things that are
unimaginable on the www forum interfaces I've seen. For what it is worth, I use Gnus in Emacs on a
FreeBSD workstation, but it is also available for Windows.

Hi George,

Could you give some examples of things that your newsreader can do?

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"George MacKenzie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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ai4i said:

Yes you must be the only one, because the web based forums have some twenty-first century
niceties that newsgroup boards lack, like better organization, Email notification, being able to
edit typos after the

fact,

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and some of the smilies transfer over to my face. I read newsgroups,

but I

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feel that for better or worse, most are being replaced by web based

boards

Quoted message said:

Perhaps you've never encountered an effective news reader that'll allow you to do things that are
unimaginable on the www forum interfaces I've seen. For what it is worth, I use Gnus in Emacs on a
FreeBSD workstation, but it is also available for Windows.

Really, the teen in the house downloads his [censored] with something called NewsGrabber, and I use
Outlook Express to view some technical discussion groups. I have never used anything other
than MSOE.

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Joel Wilson Fort Lauderdale
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Proud 2 B a pioneering satellite radio subscriber AI4I is always on the trailing edge of technology
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Rob Rudeski said:

Hi George,

Could you give some examples of things that your newsreader can do?

Do not bother reading the following if you are happy with your newsreader. If all you want to do is
read, post, and manage groups with as simple an interface as possible then don't waste your time
reading the following.

To make a very long story as short as possible: I use gnus to read Usenet newsgroups for multiple
reasons but foremostly because it integrates seamlessly with my favorite editor, emacs. Gnus has
over 2200 built in functions and variables, and if it can't by default do something I want, it can
be user programmed to do whatever necessary. Additionally, all the commonly desired functionality is
bound to simple keystrokes, so one can make very quick work of reading news.

If you've never considered customizing your editor, don't program, don't know what editing macros
are or why you'd want to use regular expressions, then you'd have no use for either gnus or emacs,
and would find it very arcane. Personally, I wouldn't want to be without
it.

Reading WWW forums like yahoo groups is for me an extremely painful experience compared to reading
Usenet newsgroups with my tool of choice. On typical WWW forums all you can do is read, and post,
being forced to use a brain dead pager, and an even worse editor, and you have no control over how
the messages are displayed - including not being able to hide messages you've already dealt with.
However, WWW forums do enable one to participate in Internet discussions with a minimal start up
cost, and if that is all you want and need then that is fine.

I won't take up any more bandwidth here describing what my newsreader can do, and certainly most
folks would not want to use a fully functional newsreader like gnus. If you want to learn more about
gnus and emacs visit www.gnus.org and www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html. Note that emacs is
available for MS windows users. The windows version is called ntemacs.

Gnus and emacs are free-ware, and I have nothing to gain by others using these programs except the
benefits of a larger user community.

Note also that gnus isn't the only game in town. I used a threaded news reader called trn
extensively before trying gnus.

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George MacKenzie Uprights and various homebuilt recumbents

Rob Rudeski wrote: ...

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So, who also reads the BROL forums? Who does NOT read the BROL forums?

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