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RCN on ARBR
Here is the word from RCN on ARBR as found on page 25 of the latest issue,
Nov/Dec 2004: "This was once the most popular recumbent newsgroup, but it turned into a soap box for personal opinion and politics for a select few. On any given topic, about 10% of the posts contain good information." Mr. Robert Bryant, the publisher and editor of RCN (Recumbent Cyclist News), has only got it partially right. A thread that is off topic will normally not even have 10% good information, at least not on the subject of recumbents. On the other hand, a thread that is on topic will have about the usual amount of good information that is to be found on any newsgroup or web site. Fully 95% of the threads will be on topic almost all of the time. Mr. Bryant is confusing the number of posts on a newsgroup with the number of subject threads on a newsgroup. They are not the same thing. If some of us like to post more to off topic than to on topic, how does that effect the on topic threads? Not at all I would claim. When I go to a newsgroup, I do not look at the number of posts, I look for the threads that I might be interested in and then and only then do I look at the posts. Even Mr. Bryant gets off topic every now and then in his magazine. But even so, it is the best publication around on the subject of recumbents and anyone here who is not subscribing to it is seriously remiss. What you find on the Internet on all those web sites having to do with recumbents is a mish-mash of information, much of it wrong and much of it stupid. What you find in RCN is recumbent information which has been sifted through an intelligent mind and therefore has some sense to it. There is one last point to be made here as far as I am concerned. I have noted that many of those who formerly posted here would post some good recumbent information, but they also were including lots of political remarks along with it. I had to decide whether I wanted to put up with their political remarks for the sake of their recumbent information. I decided no. I have never regretted that decision. This newsgroup is no longer lop sided with liberal political comments like it was in the bad old days when it " .... was once the most popular recumbent newsgroup." -- Regards, Ed Dolan - Minnesota |
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