What Happened To The Group?

well, sometimes we have nothing to say.

I think most who were around didn't get their news feed from AT&T, I use Eternal-September and Teranews

I was thinking about that just the other day.

I concluded that what happened was called "summer," and people were outside instead of posting, maybe even instead of turning.

Hopefully the next couple months will have people back here.

Hard to say. Some have wandered away and joined forums instead. The lure of blinky lights & colored fonts. Others bailed when their ISPs dropped nntp and either didn't know they could get news feeds elsewhere or didn't bother to do the homework. Others who knows?

I hope the group doesn't die - I don't post much like I used to but I still read it, and post when I think I have something to contribute.

Time marches on...

...Kevin

R.I.A.A. - the standards and big head group that moves money around for royalties of Music - started suing Network companies since people were supporting newsgroups that had binary files of music. They are the nice people who filed upon a Middle aged mother (husband passed or such) because her young teen had downloaded some music. Not much, but they, RIAA wanted and demanded millions. It hit the national news for a while. Then hushed.

They then came after each and every ISP demanding the death of news groups. They didn't demand no binary files - they wanted it all gone or be sued.

Many an ISP went the way of the threat and killed the service with an axe. When Consolidated killed their news feeds - Tech support didn't know as of yet. They were debugging it left and right with tons of customers on their necks.

I think RIAA has to much money and to big of a head. I don't do it, but killing off ways of life is wrong. Maybe we should vote to take the tasks away from them and create a new company.

Of 13 newsgroup feeds I subscribe to (some are duplicates) 4 and sometimes 5 have more than a few items.

Martin

Mart> The group use to be pretty active, with lots of participants doing all > sorts

AGREE RE RIAA - and there are some simple solutions to this:

1. don't buy music from stores or on line, buy it only directly from the artist
2. tell your young friends of the evils of the music industry and entreat them to do the same - support the artist but abhor the commercial recording industry
3. take all possible steps to overturn, avoid, or otherwise eviscerate the DCMA - which is a vast overreach of power to pure commercial interests and certainly goes against American values.

I still read it every night and help answer questions if I can.. I figure that's what the group is for, right?

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

I read it daily too, even though I've not turned anything yet.

That is about to change though, as soon as I can get some other jobs out of the way.

We have some stainless steel saucepans with glass lids. There is a stainless steel rim and in the centre a knob made of some sort of hard plastic. There is a bit of SS trim around the bottom of the knob and it is secured to the glass lid by a washered screw passing through a hole in the glass.

A few days ago my wife dropped one of the lids and we were amazed that the glass didn't break. However, the knob did and I'm going to have a go at turning up a replacement knob.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 3:13:09 -0500, Stuart wrote (in message ):

this kind of project is especially satisfying - a chance to go to the Man Cave and work with power tools and emerge with something that is both useful in ordinary life and a pleasing product from your own two hands. Celebrating with a pleasing libation afterwards is the crowning touch. Life is good - and fun. Go for it!

I check in everyday and while saying nowt I do enjoy the posts that appear.