[simpits-chat] Hi All, Happy New Year

[Bob Reed]

And this is the place that the "Usual Suspects" will hang out. Watch and
see. I enjoyed most of the off topic stuff. Like Gene says I like to think
of this as a community!

Bob Reed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb@deltasoft.com>
To: <simpits-chat@simpits.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: [simpits-chat] Hi All, Happy New Year


> Hehehe.  Ever check the "Forums" link off the main simpits.org website? :)
>
> The problem is that instead of "build it and they will come" it is more
> like "build it and they'll look at you like you're an idiot."  The forum
> has been active for over a year and it gets very little use.
>
> I set up a news server as an alternative to the mailing list.  It was
> viewed more as a curiosity than anything else and was only used by a
> handful of people before I gave up maintaining it.  The most heard reason
> was that it was too hard to use.  I guess configuring a news reader is
> just too hard for some people.  That in itself boggles my mind since
> they're supposedly here to build incredibly complex cockpits.  Nobody even
> asked how to use it.  They arbitrarily stamped "too hard" on it and
> ignored it.
>
>
> I set up a private IRC server for the group to use.  That just got me
> hacked by some snot-nosed little pigfucker from Romania.  Again, most
> didn't use it because IRC seemed to be too much to grasp.
>
> It's intensely frustrating at times.  When I moved the list from the spam
> and ad ridden mess at Yahoo, at least 30 people bailed right away because
> the new list archiving method was "too hard to understand" or they
> couldn't post to the list from a website.  I figure that gang liked all
> the spam and tack-on ads that are the trademark of yahoo.
>
> Out of the 269 people currently subscribed to the list, I'm willing to bet
> that over 200 of the have _never_ posted so much as an introduction to the
> list.  There are about 20 people that post on a fairly constant basis.  Of
> that group, I'd say that at least 15 of them have been with the list since
> it started in 1999.  This group is what I call the Usual Suspects. :)  If
> there is a lot of traffic going on, it's usually due to something that one
> of the Usual Suspects(tm) have either said or done.  They're also the
> coolest bunch on the whole list. :)  BTW, you're also one of the Usual
> Suspects because you post amusing, interesting or inquisitive things to
> the list on a regular basis. :)
>
> g.
>
>  On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Joseph Fagner wrote:
>
> > Well, maybe they'll be back after a week or two when the chatting dies
> > down.  I know you have quite a bit on your plate, but doesn't EZ-board
> > have/do a free bulletin board?  I don't know, what if any upkeep there
> > is.  I'm sure some of us would volunteer to help moderate the groups.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: simpits-chat-admin@simpits.org
> > [mailto:simpits-chat-admin@simpits.org] On Behalf Of Gene Buckle
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:58 PM
> > To: simpits-chat@simpits.org
> > Subject: RE: [simpits-chat] Hi All, Happy New Year
> >
> > There were a few posters that left.  I think what rubs me so wrong is
> > that
> > people can't seem to grasp that this is a community of people that have
> > similar interests AND a homebuilt cockpit of some kind.
> >
> > I *really* miss bulletin boards. :(
> >
> > g.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Joseph Fagner wrote:
> >
> > > Were there any of them that were contributors?  Heck we go days
> > > sometimes without a post and someone writes in "where is everyone?"
> > > Now, the last two days with a lot of folks off for the new years, we
> > had
> > > some chatty conversation and now they are getting all bent out of
> > shape.
> > > There is just no pleasing some people.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: simpits-chat-admin@simpits.org
> > > [mailto:simpits-chat-admin@simpits.org] On Behalf Of Gene Buckle
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:45 PM
> > > To: simpits-chat@simpits.org
> > > Subject: Re: [simpits-chat] Hi All, Happy New Year
> > >
> > > Heheheheh!
> > >
> > > I actually had a guy unsubscribe from -tech today (the 8th!) that
> > > complained about too many *digests*.  *sigh*
> > >
> > > g.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mike Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Now that we are on the chatlist, chat away, kinda like reading all
> > the
> > > post
> > > > myself, :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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