Question about pilot forums

Avsig is only a shadow of what it was a few years ago. The major players are
long gone. I still go by there occasionally and there are VERY few
interesting posts any more. Avsig is mostly an expensive social club these
days.

"Offline", what is that??? I haven't been offline for 5 years!!

Karl
"curator" N185KG


"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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John,

I was curious if
anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics. I


www.avsig.com. Mother of all pilot bulletin boards.

What do you think is attractive about web forums? I hate them, because
you can't read them offline, nor can you decently track what you have
read and what not. Get a decent newsreader to follow this, and you'll
see what I mean.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Kgruber,

You should try this thing called "travelling".

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Ah, the joys of usenet. Instant insult from the clueless. Oh well...

I said "of all PILOT forums". This from Avsig: "The Aviation Special
Interest Group (AVSIG) is the world's oldest international computer forum
community. AVSIG was born in the early 1980s on CompuServe, a dial-up
computer information service which was a proprietary forerunner to the
internet and world-wide web. "

You know anything older? Let me know.

The real Internet. The DARPA Internet. Long before CompuServe.

The other downside to a web-based forum -- can't always get
a PPP or SLIP connection. But I can ALWAYS get a dial-up for
plain text.

Blanche,

The real Internet. The DARPA Internet. Long before CompuServe.


And there was a pilot forum there?

BTW, nothing "real" about it. It is and was the internet.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)