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New Critical Mass forum
Just to let everyone know that there is a new Critical Mass phpBB
forum at http://cmforum.florenceart.net/ I hope that it will be useful to better organize and coordinate Critical Mass in various cities worldwide and perhaps become an international CM point of reference. So please check it out, spread the word and if possible put a link to it on your site(s). P.S. I've also put up a new Critical Mass Florence (Italy) page in english at http://www.artisanflorence.it/criticalmass/ |
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New Critical Mass forum
Why not on Usenet where you advertised it?
"gagarin" wrote in message om... Just to let everyone know that there is a new Critical Mass phpBB forum at |
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New Critical Mass forum
There are many reasons. First of all news servers (incl. google) carry
only a fraction of existing news groups so that rec.bicycles.soc for e.g. might not be accessible to many people especially those who access Usenet through their ISPs. This is done in part to save bandwidth and in part as a form of censorship. Also forums are more specialized and easily customizable by the user and the admin. Anyone who's ever used a phpBB is well aware of its advantages. I still think Usenet is a great thing and don't see why the two shouldn't coexist but of course the bottom line is – to each his own. "Doug Huffman" wrote in message . .. Why not on Usenet where you advertised it? "gagarin" wrote in message om... Just to let everyone know that there is a new Critical Mass phpBB forum at |
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New Critical Mass forum
Google.com does not run a 'newsserver'. My newsserver carries about 50,000
news groups. You don't seem to know of what you write. As you say, 'whatever'. "gagarin" wrote in message om... There are many reasons. First of all news servers (incl. google) carry only a fraction of existing news groups so that rec.bicycles.soc for e.g. might not be accessible to many people especially those who access Usenet through their ISPs. This is done in part to save bandwidth and in part as a form of censorship. Also forums are more specialized and easily customizable by the user and the admin. Anyone who's ever used a phpBB is well aware of its advantages. I still think Usenet is a great thing and don't see why the two shouldn't coexist but of course the bottom line is - to each his own. "Doug Huffman" wrote in message . .. Why not on Usenet where you advertised it? "gagarin" wrote in message om... Just to let everyone know that there is a new Critical Mass phpBB forum at |
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New Critical Mass forum
There are a lot more news groups than 50 000 and as I said many ISP
news servers dond't carry even that many. All I'm trying to do is provide a free service that I think might be useful to some people and i don't see the need to bicker about it. I don't care what you think about my knowledge and you can have the last word if you wish. "Doug Huffman" wrote in message ... Google.com does not run a 'newsserver'. My newsserver carries about 50,000 news groups. You don't seem to know of what you write. As you say, 'whatever'. "gagarin" wrote in message om... There are many reasons. First of all news servers (incl. google) carry only a fraction of existing news groups so that rec.bicycles.soc for e.g. might not be accessible to many people especially those who access Usenet through their ISPs. This is done in part to save bandwidth and in part as a form of censorship. Also forums are more specialized and easily customizable by the user and the admin. Anyone who's ever used a phpBB is well aware of its advantages. I still think Usenet is a great thing and don't see why the two shouldn't coexist but of course the bottom line is - to each his own. "Doug Huffman" wrote in message . .. Why not on Usenet where you advertised it? "gagarin" wrote in message om... Just to let everyone know that there is a new Critical Mass phpBB forum at |
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New Critical Mass forum
First of all news servers (incl. google) carry only a
fraction of existing news groups so that rec.bicycles.soc for e.g. might not be accessible ... =v= For what it's worth, the rec.* hierarchy is well-established and honored by most, including Google Groups. Mostly it's groupsin the alt.* hierarchy that get censored. Years ago, I tried to get {rec|alt}.bicycles.critical-mass going, but the Usenet detractors outnumbered the supporters in those days. =v= A worldwide Critical Mass forum already exists he http://groups.yahoo.com/group/critical-mass/ A Yahoo! Group sends the messages to you by email and/or lets you read them on the web, "message board" style. Which is nice if you prefer one over the other. _Jym_ P.S.: Personally, I prefer handling messages in a mail/news app of my own choice to some wrist-wrecking point/drag/click interface on the web. |
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There doesn't see to be any global critical mass forum so i thought i could make one, 20 gigs of bandwidth should do the trick. P.S. The yahoo forum sucks, no categories or ways to organize information and separate topics. The main advantage of a forum is structure. Yahoo groups lacks just this. Done: http://www.CMForum.co.cc/ Last edited by Stephen304 : April 17th 10 at 02:08 AM. |
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