Wow Joe-

Two for two on the link requests here (just pinged you on another
thread).

Any links on those books?

Thanks,

Liam




On Dec 28 2007, 12:03 pm, Joe Sallustio > wrote:
> On Dec 27, 9:55 pm, jim > wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > > Bob
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> > > On Dec 27, 5:41 pm, wrote:
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> > > > On Dec 20, 4:46 am, Joe Sallustio > wrote:
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> > > > > On Dec 19, 6:25 pm, Dick Heckman > wrote:
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> > > > > > It seems that there is much less activity here lately. Are folks moving
> > > > > > elsewhere?
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> > > > > > dick
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > > 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...
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> > > > > Joe
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> > > > I agree with Joe.
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > Happy Holidays!
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> > > > Jesse
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> > 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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> > I agree in general though - Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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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