Dick Heckman wrote:

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.

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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

Hang in there Dick. I lost 90% of my fruiting
buds during the Easter week freezes but this was
a first time happening for me. The other
vineyards around here fared much better and it
was a vintage year. I think I am in my own
little micro climate (on a slope near a ravine)
Growing grapes can be very rewarding as well as
very frustrating at times but once the bug hits
you, you will enjoy.