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

Moka Java <rtwatches@fishyahoo.com> wrote in
news:672em2F2mphvkU1@mid.individual.net:
>
> a.c hasn't died, it just ain't what it used to be.  Actually, it never
> really was what it used to be.  There were always squabbles and flames
> and accusations, etc., that's part of the charm of usenet.  I think
> some of us oldies have lost sight of that.  A few things happened,
> Madeleine Page died, the internet grew and evolved, old friends picked
> up new interests -- kids, careers, what have you -- and sailed off
> into the www.  To those who rail on that the demise of a.c was caused
> by this poster or that one, your view is myopic.  Some of the
> detractors were and are worse than the alleged offenders.
>
> To answer your question, elsewhere for coffee info and chatter is
> probably Home Barista, Coffeegeek and Greencoffee.coop
>
> R "whatever" TF

A.C. is far from dead. But, at one time it ruled big time - way back in
pre-www days when  usenet ruled simply because that's all there was. As a
general interest forum it still dominates; even with the spam & bullying
it's a great place to share ideas and pick the brains of some pretty good
bean heads.

Other forums have popped up; some are members only, moderated general
interest groups like CG & HB which parallel a.c. as far as content is
concerned, and some are narrow interest user groups like the Yahoo Gaggia &
Bunn groups, the Google Brewtus group, and the various green coffee buyers
coops.

These forums have taken some trafic away from a.c., but I don't see that as
a problem. There are only a few general interest groups to search for info
(too bad some of them have such *sucky* search engines), and specific
topics that are better covered in the dedicated subject users groups always
get directed to the correct forum.

Alt.coffee dying? Not yet - it's still an important cog in the coffee
wheel. And if someone doesn't wish to participate in one group or the
other, there's always a third or fouth option.

alt.coffee - charting the courses of all other coffee forums!


Robert (Tex) Harmon
--
http://www.tinyurl.com/mb4uj - My coffee pages.

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