who reads this parallel forum?

i stumbled on a forum that has all the threads we make here but I never knew about it. what it that thing?

http://www.cyclingforums.com/f173

and if you go back one, you get a rec sport unicyling tab to take you there but below it is another place to post threads?
http://www.cyclingforums.com/f157

spooky

I’ve seen that before from uk.rec.cycling; the last time I looked it was hideously out of date though, posts would only appear ages after they were made. It must have improved since then, as it seems to be okay now…

Phil

Re: who reads this parallel forum?

phil wrote:
> I’ve seen that before from uk.rec.cycling; the last time I looked it was
> hideously out of date though, posts would only appear ages after they
> were made. It must have improved since then, as it seems to be okay
> now…

I’ve never actually looked at cyclingforums.com, but I am a regular on
uk.rec.cycling where it causes frequent complaints.

cyclingforums.com is a commercial website that provides a web interface
for a number of cycling newsgroups, much like the gateway between the
unicycling forum and rec.sport.unicycling, except that cyclingforums.com
does it for profit.

There are several reasons that urc readers object to the gateway.

  • People object to their posts being annexed by a commercial
    organisation which then treats the posts as its own. There isn’t even a
    way to stop cyclingforums.com archiving your posts, unlike Google groups.

  • People resent being described as “guests” in their own newsgroup.

  • People find it irksome when cyclingforums posters describe the
    newsgroup as “this website”, not knowing any better (those of us who
    read urc tend to be the sort of geeks who regard the distinction between
    www and usenet as important).

  • People posting from cyclingforums tend to have no idea of netiquette.
    They don’t know how to behave on usenet, and in most cases aren’t even
    aware that they are posting on usenet. They tend not to be urc
    regulars, just people who are browsing a website and replying to
    anything that catches their eye. And that’s a particularly heinous
    crime in usenet, where one of the rules that keeps groups running
    smoothly is that people should lurk for a while and familiarise
    themselves with the character of a group before they start posting.

At least on the unicycling forum, people tend to be regulars and to be
familiar with the character of the forum/newsgroup.


Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine

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Re: who reads this parallel forum?

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:27:46 -0500, “jagur” wrote:

>i stumbled on a forum that has all the threads we make here but I never
>knew about it. what it that thing?
>
>http://www.cyclingforums.com/f173

Some time ago, a new poster to our community thought that that place
was the only interface. There are even more web-based places to read
(and sometimes post to) this community. If you google (the www) on
your own uni nickname or some unique text string from a post, you
might find them.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

“The more you think, the less you have to do. - Leo Vandewoestijne”