Is it me or is aus.electronics dying?

I
got a new machine at work and couldn't even remember which usenet server
I used to set up my viewer! That's how little I use usenet these days.

On Jul 30, 10:42 am, "Mr.T" <MrT_at_home> wrote:
"kreed" <kenreed1...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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I would suggest that radio probably still does ok, as you tend to
listen to it in the car when driving, and often in workplaces and home
as "background company".

In general I think you would be wrong there too with MP3 players being so
ubiquitous. I for one listen to radio VERY rarely these days, and younger
people do even less so IME.
MTV drives record sales (MP3 downloads) now not radio, and how many
intelligent people can stand the dribble on talk back radio I wonder?

MrT.


You are probably very right on that too, while I don't have the
facility in my car, most cars over the last couple of years are being
advertised as being
"ipod compatible" or at very least will play MP3 CD's, or have a line
level input.

The reason I probably didn't think of that is that I don't own a
portable MP3 player and do have the radio on when driving around.


A lot of modern music is getting so bad - Im starting to prefer
silence (IE: Im getting too old:)

ABC Classic FM? What I listen to most of the time in the car,

"kreed" <kenreed1...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:998ae6aa-8ee7-465e-b249-b5d58340f96b_at_p22g2000pre.googlegroups.com...

I would suggest that radio probably still does ok, as you tend to
listen to it in the car when driving, and often in workplaces and home
as "background company".

In general I think you would be wrong there too with MP3 players being so
ubiquitous. I for one listen to radio VERY rarely these days, and younger
people do even less so IME.
MTV drives record sales (MP3 downloads) now not radio, and how many
intelligent people can stand the dribble on talk back radio I wonder?

MrT.

kreed wrote:
On Jul 28, 11:18 am, "Dennis" <inva...@nowhere.com> wrote:
It seems over many years that aus.electronics is carking it.

Apart from active input from Don McK, Dave LJ, its really quiet.

PA seems to have morphed into |-|erc and Sylvia seems to be
channeling Rod Speed.

Whatever became of Bob Wilson?

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IF this works for you - it will demonstrate (based on monthly numbers
of posts) that you are correct. I have been noticing this trend for
the past year or so.
Seems that the group hit an all-time peak about mid 2001 and continued
to do ok during 2002-03 (depending on which month you look at) and has
declined ever since.

I have been on here since around the time that Electronics Australia
collapsed, (defecating the short lived out EAT as it died) and it has
overall been a pretty good and knowledgeable group to be in, its very
very sad to see it dropping like this. Learned a lot from it over the
years too.

According to some posters on other groups, in the US major ISP's
started dropping usenet access a couple of years back based on the
excuse of "child porn" but more likely to cut costs from maintaining
something that has reducing user base with the continuing take up of
Facebook, Twit ter, Google groups etc also happening. For serious
subject discussions, I don't think these are anywhere near as good as
usenet personally.

It isn't just Aus Electronics, most Usenet based groups that I have
been reading or posting on have dropped significantly with posts,
and/or getting filled up with crap
(not necessarily spam, but more ignorant or stupid posts, usually from
those that don't want to listen to / fight with those who know - who
then get sick of it and slowly stop being involved )

The top all time posters (that I can recognise from the mangled email
addys) seem to be Phil Allison, Don McKenzie, Rod Speed, & Trevor
Wilson, from the look of the table below

I'm the third highest poster behind Phil & Rod, using two email addresses:
altz...@gmail.com and my old dljo...@ozemail.com.au

Yes, I agree with most, the group is dying off, that's just a natural
consequence of the general decline of Usenet groups to other medium.
I got a new machine at work and couldn't even remember which usenet server I
used to set up my viewer! That's how little I use usenet these days.

Heck, even my EEVblog forum gets a ton more activity than this group now:http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?action=stats
Average of 42 posts per day, 6 new members sign up per day, etc
Right now there are 13 users actively viewing the forum, but it's been as
high as 223.

Dave.
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It seems over many years that aus.electronics is carking it.

Apart from active input from Don McK, Dave LJ, its really quiet.