-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 12-19-05  16:13 <=-

 NB> it.  From what I can see, the genealogy newsgroups, especially most of
 NB> the specialty ones likewise succumbed, only a few years later... the
 NB> Internet's less community-oriented makeup made it even harder to keep
 NB> a critical mass.  I read some of what's left via RIME gating to my main
 NB> bbs, but I haven't really been able to take part in them.

 DC> The i-net has taken away the personalism that was and is FIDO.  

The newsgroups that seem to have managed to hang on with some degree of
flourishing are the ones in which the participants tended to act as
though it was a Fido echo, answering most in the newsgroup instead of
shooting off their replies via email privately, unless there were some
good reason to MAKE it private.  Gen.medieval has flourished, as it
became mostly a scholarly public forum, although not without a degree of
spam and trolls...  I have found some very good information there, even
without being able to actively participate in the group.

But by and large, the newgroups, even for genealogy, lost most of the
personality and personable-ness that had been the rule in the Fido
echos.  I had had my reservations as to whether the Inet was going to be
an improvement, it appears that time has justified those reservations.

ttyl          neb

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