"Dick Heckman" wrote in message
...
Joe Sallustio wrote:
On Dec 27, 9:55 pm, jim wrote:
On Dec 27, 10:45 pm, wrote:





Exactly, People have learned how to do searches. I assume that is the
reason also. It's very rare a "new" question is posted and just as
rare that a "new" answer will be given.
Bob
On Dec 27, 5:41 pm, wrote:
On Dec 20, 4:46 am, Joe Sallustio wrote:
On Dec 19, 6:25 pm, Dick Heckman wrote:
It seems that there is much less activity here lately. Are folks
moving
elsewhere?
dick
This is the original winemaking newsgroup, it's been around for close
to 15 years. To be honest, it's not only spawned a lot of other
groups but most questions have been asked and answered many times.
The groups was much more active years ago, but that is where a lot of
questions got answered. I might be willing to bet there are close to
a thousand posts on cleaning/ removing labels from bottles for
example. There really aren't that many ways to do that and I can
guarantee all of them have already been explored here.
I'm not saying it's outlived it's usefulness, just that there are
other groups out there now answering all these questions, again. So
'dilution' is occurring...
Joe
I agree with Joe.
You can search almost any wine making question within this group and
you will find pages of relative info. I search first and if I don't
find the info/help I need, then I will post a question. Why post if
the info you need has been discussed multiple times. I think some of
the folks that have been around this site for awhile probably get
tired of the same old questions all the time. That said, this is a
great group and a wealth of information and if you don't like to
search and would rather post questions, I bet you will still get some
discussion.
Happy Holidays!
Jesse
I kind of agree and kind of don't.

Many people use the news-reader portion of outlook express. Unless
their newsgroup provider has unlimited retention and was there before
the start of this wine-making group they wouldn't be able to find the
messages in their news-client. They might not realise (as I didn't
till the middle of this year) that they could search the entire (I
think) archive on Google. Also, different practices and materials and
equipment arises from time to time, so it is on occasion worth
revisiting.

I agree in general though - Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Oh yeah, you can get the original posts from when they started the
group in Usenet back in 1993 on Google's archives. I probably have at
least 50 books on wine and winemaking but probably learned more here
on this group. You can never beat first hand experience. Google is
amazing, you can read 100 year old winemaking books now if you want
to...

Joe


I've just noticed that in the last year the post volume seemed to drop
pretty drastically. I've been lurking most of the time for quite a few
years and copying posts that I found valuable. I'm not all that computer
literate and never thought to search google. I just like to see what
folks are thinking about wine and winemaking from time to time. I've made
fruit wines when the fruit was available and I felt like it for about 30
yrs. I've never worried about recipes etc other than making sure I had a
reasonable SG at start and a decent wine yeast. I've never had a real
failure.

I've planted a few vines now and in a couple of years maybe I'll have some
grape wines. The frost in the Southeast last spring knocked my vines in a
cocked hat and I'm almost starting over.

Thanks,

Dick

It's the newbies that keep this group going. All too often lately,
they are being told to "go get googled". Some interpret this as
the equivalent of "go get F***** ", and they take their questions
to friendlier places. I, for one, would like to see the use of
google as an answer be outlawed in this group !! (personal
opinion of one grouchy old fart)