Text 26031, 93 rader
Skriven 2012-02-28 00:34:52 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 25786 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Popular echo?
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HEllo Roy,

On Sat 2012-Feb-25 05:06, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

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 Roy>> Weather, FDN_announce and Syncdata, this echo ranks third in
 Roy>> popularity among non-robots. And frankly, it probably ranks 1st if
 Roy>> you exlude posts in the Cooking echo by Dave Drum, who mostly posts
 Roy>> recipes with very little conversation in those posts. Some
 Roy>> conversation may come afterwards by those who would comment on
 Roy>> them, but not until. I'd classify his recipe posts as robotic. I
 Roy>> can't say anything about Railfan, as I don't read that echo.

 RW> I think DD uses a qwk reader though, so I doubt it's a
 RW> robot.

Roy> Perhaps so, but each recipe has it's own subject line, which makes
Roy> them look like robotic posts. None the less, there is no comment in
Roy> any of those, save for one that I myself saved for my own use.

INteresting.  I read him elsewhere.  I carried cooking for
awhile, but haven't lately.

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 RW> I post an occasional announcement to fdn_announce, which is
 RW> the only reason I carry it.  AS for weather, I do actually
 RW> read a lot of that data that's posted.

Roy> Unfortunately, you have to have a reader do that for you. OTH, I use
Roy> the Weather Channel's version in my browser.

I mostly look at some of their long range stuff nationwide,
and some of the stats.  The poster used to do a lot of other marine forecast
stuff there, but slowed up on that, which is kind of a disappointment.  I've
actually used it for vessels heading for one of those places on ham radio,
although for
areas right off NOrth America I get that stuff from noaa
web, thanks to Mark Lewis it ends up in my inbound where my
automation slices dices and processes it to make it
presentable for me to read on the air, either by dumping off to my braille
embosser when it worked, or to make it easier
for me to listen to the screenreader and then present on the air.  Have the
automation able to flip back into emboss in
hardcopy braille mode though as soon as I find a kilobuck to get my braille
printer unit fixed at the brailel printer
doctor's.  IT is intermittent printing a couple dots out of
the cell, iirc dots 1 and 2.  I was hoping it was just a
matter of swapping out a solenoid or something cool I could
do on the bench here, but the tech at the comompany told me
not hardly.  After they swap out the bad components they
twaek the thing, use a micrometer to look at dot height and
make sure all's copacetic, and he'll get a complete checkup
and going over with that $1k.  nOw it's jsut a matter of
finding it ,g>.

 RW> I do read railfan, it's gated from misc.transport.rail.americas, and
 RW> there are actual humans there carrying on conversations.

Roy> That's interesting.

YEp, a couple interesting threads went on there recently,
one on cab signaling vs trackside signaling for train crews. Isn't a real good
thread currently happening there i"m into, but that'll change sooner or later.

 RW>   I"ve even posted there a couple of times since I linked up.  A
 RW> couple years ago it was dead as a dog that got hit by a semi truck
 RW> but whoever's gating that ng there is doing the gating right, at
 RW> least on the input side.

Roy> It's always nice to see someone actually doing somthing right. Every
Roy> so often I get some messages that are too long for FE to process and
Roy> they end up in my BAD area, which gets them deleted.

Any of the stuff I post in ls_arrl doing that to you?  IF so I'll set up things
to post smaller messages.

 RW> I've seen replies to another poster from the fido side, nothing to
 RW> mine yet, but I've only posted a couple msgs, and they were minor
 RW> corrections to some erroneous info somebody else posted and probably
 RW> didn't warrant any further comment, but am sure I'm propagating there
 RW> <g>.

Roy> At least you've shown a prescence...

Yep, there again I mostly follow the technical threads over
there in rf.



Regards,
           Richard
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