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 | | From: | Uncle Davey | | Subject: | OT - Do existing Usenetters actually want the number of usenetters to grow? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:52:23 +0100 |
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 | Okay, here is an OT thread which is not about religion, so the alt.atheist
crowd won't have anything to complain about for once: I just want to ask
people's opionions and see if there is a consensus on way or the other on
the question of whether existing usenetters actually want newbies around or
not.
The background to this is the apparent fact that, despite the fact that more
and more people are getting on line and for those at least who have got into
it, usenet seems to be one of their favorite parts of the online world, it
seems that most people who surf the net don't actually even know what Usenet
is, and only a small minority of people who are on-line are participants. It
seems to me that the number of people in Usenet isn't growing as fast as the
number of people using other parts of the on-line world, and still a
sizeable part of the population of any thriving group are oldies who have
been around for years and years.
When newbies do appear, the welcome is not always very enticing, and in fact
a lot of the 'newbies' even turn out to be shell entities of oldies, and
even if they are not, they are often suspected of being so.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I just wanted to test the hypothesis that
people on Usenet actually are not particularly anxious that the playground
we have here is inundated by a load of new additions, and consider that they
will all be clueless newbies doing this off of their web tv.
I would be grateful, and maybe quite a few other people could also be
curious as to the result, if we could nail our colours to the mast and say
what we think about that topic.
Let's say we could vote
a) I'm in favour of opening up usenet to as many people as possible
b) I'm in favour of new people coming, as long as they're clever enough so
we shouldn't make it too easy
c) I don't care one way or the other
d) I'm not in favour of more people coming, we have too many already.
e) I've read your question, but I'm abstaining, as it's none of your
business what I think on the matter.
Maybe you could also, in your answer, say how long YOU'VE been around,
rounded to the nearest year. You're not obliged to, obviously, but it might
add
something interesting to the results.
I'm a 7a). BTW.
Best,
Uncle Davey
www.usenetposts.com
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| | From: | jedi | | Subject: | Re: OT - Do existing Usenetters actually want the number of usenetters to grow? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:46:55 -0500 |
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| Everyone is a newbie to begin with.
"Uncle Davey" wrote in message
news:csu7dc$k2p$0@pita.alt.net...
> Okay, here is an OT thread which is not about religion, so the alt.atheist
> crowd won't have anything to complain about for once: I just want to ask
> people's opionions and see if there is a consensus on way or the other on
> the question of whether existing usenetters actually want newbies around
or
> not.
>
> The background to this is the apparent fact that, despite the fact that
more
> and more people are getting on line and for those at least who have got
into
> it, usenet seems to be one of their favorite parts of the online world, it
> seems that most people who surf the net don't actually even know what
Usenet
> is, and only a small minority of people who are on-line are participants.
It
> seems to me that the number of people in Usenet isn't growing as fast as
the
> number of people using other parts of the on-line world, and still a
> sizeable part of the population of any thriving group are oldies who have
> been around for years and years.
>
> When newbies do appear, the welcome is not always very enticing, and in
fact
> a lot of the 'newbies' even turn out to be shell entities of oldies, and
> even if they are not, they are often suspected of being so.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I just wanted to test the hypothesis that
> people on Usenet actually are not particularly anxious that the playground
> we have here is inundated by a load of new additions, and consider that
they
> will all be clueless newbies doing this off of their web tv.
>
> I would be grateful, and maybe quite a few other people could also be
> curious as to the result, if we could nail our colours to the mast and say
> what we think about that topic.
>
> Let's say we could vote
>
> a) I'm in favour of opening up usenet to as many people as possible
> b) I'm in favour of new people coming, as long as they're clever enough so
> we shouldn't make it too easy
> c) I don't care one way or the other
> d) I'm not in favour of more people coming, we have too many already.
> e) I've read your question, but I'm abstaining, as it's none of your
> business what I think on the matter.
>
> Maybe you could also, in your answer, say how long YOU'VE been around,
> rounded to the nearest year. You're not obliged to, obviously, but it
might
> add
> something interesting to the results.
>
> I'm a 7a). BTW.
>
> Best,
>
> Uncle Davey
> www.usenetposts.com
>
>
>
>
>
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| | From: | Uncle Davey | | Subject: | Re: OT - Do existing Usenetters actually want the number of usenetters to grow? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:48:48 +0100 |
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"jedi" wrote in message
news:_9yId.14330$Rf2.2762@fe08.lga...
> Everyone is a newbie to begin with.
I'll call that an a) then.
Best
Uncle Davey
www.usenetposts.com
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