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Re: Alt.coffee is dead; long live alt.coffee (somewhere else)

"Steve Ackman" <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com> wrote in message
<SNIP>
>  Give me the data.  Period.  Let my software format,
> thread, filter, and display it the way I want.  If I
> want to ignore certain threads, save others, filter
> certain keywords or people, score certain topics
> higher or lower than others, I want to be able to
> do that.  No web forum has that ability.
>
>  In today's always-on connections, little thought is
> given to the ability to read and write offline, but it's
> an important consideration for people on dialup, people
> using laptops without hotspots, etc.  You can do that
> with newsgroups, but not with the web.
>
>  In writing a post, I want to use my favorite editor.
> Newsreaders often accomodate that (mine does anyway).
> Web forums simply can't.
>
>> It will save my ever having to look at this
>> place again and see the ruin it has become, and I suspect I am not the
>> only person who would appreciate it.
>
>  This all sounds amazingly like a post from Ken Fox
> a couple/three years ago.

Excellent thoughts.

I mainly lurk, and recently started just scanning some of the titles before
deleting when the *stats* posts started showing up stating how the forum was
dying.  I started roasting several years back and getting into
better/fresher coffee and found this site, and while there was much good
info, I personally found some of the posts too elitest.   What I mean by
that was some of the attitude behind the posts that came across...if you
don't have a Rocky / Silvia combo don't bother...and don't post here since
you obviously aren't sophisticated enough....  I know that's overly
simplistic but at the time there was no way I could afford to spend that
kind of change... on coffee.  I know...heresy. ;o).   I could get that combo
now, but I still use the Gran Gaggia I rebuilt (Goodwill $6, but with
cracked boiler) and an old Zass grinder.

And I realize that groups where newbs show up with the same questions over
and over can get monotonus. rec.crafts.brewing gets newbies all the time.
After reading "...Did I ruin my beer?....What mill should I buy?...." for
the past 12 years I don't post as often as I used to there, but it's still
an enjoyable place to go. Just skip the basic posts for awhile.  But to rant
about how bad a group has gotten.   How high-school clique-ish is that!
Grow up.  I guess though I may have just skipped most of the bad posts here
and may have just wound up being put behind filters and in kill files, but
usenet is still a great place to hang out.
--
John Heubel

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