Joe Sallustio wrote:
> On Dec 27, 9:55 pm, jim > wrote:
>> On Dec 27, 10:45 pm, wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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...
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> Joe
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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