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

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:01 -0400, "John Heubel" <jsheubel@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>"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.

Yes, I agree with you & Steve.  Read what you want.  There really is
no investment other than choosing what post interests you and then
spend those 2 minutes:) or so.  Skip the kindergarteners who bicker.
Gads, having been near alt.coffee since 1994, this is the natural flow
of the group.

aloha from Kona
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