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Orchid Photo Theft
Joanna,
Newsgroups participation could easily be argued to be down because every question about a topic (especially orchids) can be answered instantaneously now by just Googling the question... no one has to wait 24 hours anymore for a response from someone in the newsgroup. Even emailing overall on the net is declining... everyone prefers IM-ing now. We all want instant feedback and RGO (among many other newsgroups) is becoming an information dinosaur. It's evolution. Mick |
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Believe what you like. I will always resist muggings on this or any
forum. It is hard to TOS a hit and run flamer but easy to TOS a regular. On some forums viewers run 200 views to one poster or more. Who knows why they only lurk, but, they are there. IMHO one mugging can move hundreds to abandon this forum. Besides, I CANNOT stand idly by and watch a hit without defending the hitee. Not in me. If this forum finds Mr. Fournier's antics acceptable I will move on, no big thing. The web is full of forums, and asyou say everything is now known about orchids, no questions left, just a place to bicker. Joe T Archive Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1994 243 219 195 206 222 192 332 1995 350 205 265 314 359 362 337 371 426 348 313 511 1996 464 419 429 506 472 369 422 441 463 380 452 465 1997 502 512 508 470 527 446 452 256 380 427 423 475 1998 527 449 510 460 588 674 568 682 576 746 961 939 1999 997 1053 957 1135 1068 815 1036 1107 1366 991 933 641 2000 1026 785 941 1156 790 764 1007 1014 869 1182 884 860 2001 1238 1174 1123 799 822 897 1005 1070 896 1282 956 1044 2002 909 808 972 845 725 537 541 498 710 556 744 798 2003 784 807 605 651 612 658 813 783 850 529 757 627 2004 908 758 708 719 517 525 575 567 601 548 723 619 2005 543 443 607 480 450 334 426 477 363 448 493 396 2006 372 298 444 492 417 441 313 180 J Fortuna wrote: Joe T, Sorry, but I don't believe that the lower posting rates in RGO are due to violations of TOS. http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ is a tool that allows one to search for all kinds of interesting statistics about this newsgroup. Among other things, you can find out there that RGO has been much less active this year than last year -- for example: using August 1, 2006 to get the statistics for a year, last year there were 5533, and this year only 2968; in contrast using August, 1, 2001 to get statistics for a year, 12158 "this year" (meaning Aug 1, 2001 back to Aug 1, 2000, I think). And yet in February 2001 there was a message to this forum entitled "Why are people so mean on this forum". I think you will find reading through the archives that this group has actually become much more tame and friendly to newbies over time rather than the opposite. RGO used to have some ferocious flame wars, and yet during those days the number of messages was much higher. Mick Fournier has been a member of this forum since Jun 19 1997, and in this time he has been exceedingly rude at times, exceedingly funny at other times, and given useful information at other times, and sometimes even all three of these at once, but you cannot blame the declining participation in this forum on Mick's behavior because then this forum would have had it's lowest turnout years ago, when Mick's tirades were really ugly. Believe it or not, Mick seems to have calmed down significantly over the years, and he is no longer nearly as rude as he used to be. Just read the archives in groups.google.com searching for group:rec.gardens.orchids author:fournier if you don't believe me. So there must be another explanation for decline in participation in this forum. How about the fact that newsgroups in general are an old mode of communication? I have not been able to find statistics for all of Usenet/Newsgroups but I bet that the overall numbers have declined over the years. Joanna "jtill" wrote in message oups.com... The point is, violations of TOS harm this forum and drive away posters. I think Mr. Fournier has violated the TOS and wish he would quit doing that. Years ago I watched RGR Flamed till it was ruined. There are folk that turn to RGO for help and discussion, that is what they should get. We all, Experts and Newbies, should provide that. Simple, polite corrections should should stop OT posts. Did I make that clear? Joe T The data I used came from GOOGLE. J Fortuna wrote: RGO posts, author Mick Fournier, July 2000, 21 RGO posts, author Mick Fournier, July 2000, 1 I do not know the orchid sales of Mick Fournier during that time, and whether or not they have shown a steady growth. Joe T, what point were you trying to make with these RGO stats? Joanna PS: the RGO posts, author Mick Fournier stats quoted above are based on a search using http://groups.google.com/advanced_search (I don't know what you were using for your stats Joe T, but groups.google.com returns only 241 results for RGO for 2000, and only 41 in July 2006 -- although I think groups.google.com returns threads as results and not individual messages, so that might account for the difference in our stats. "jtill" wrote in message ups.com... snip RGO posts, July 2000, 1007. RGO posts, July 2006, 313. Orchid sales during that time have shown steady growth. Joe T Baytown |
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Joe,
I can't stand ass-wipers like you. Go screw yourself. Mick |
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For what its worth, the first thing I did on seeing the original post
(before anybody had even responded to it) was to check out the thief's site to see if any of my pictures were posted there. And for what it's worth again I had no idea that the mere mention of pictures could bring Mick out with his bloody chainsaw spinning. I though actual pictures were needed. This is new. New is exciting. How have you determined how many people lurk and their response to the things they have read? How do you know they leave if they have never made their presence known? Jtill, this is an honest question. I have always wondered if there is a way to know how many people are really lurking since I have seen so many people on this newsgroup try to claim them and their responses during times of conflict. If you don't use your voice, Lurkers, it seems somebody else will. How do you determine the difference between a lurker and a doppelganger who comes out of nowhere to express an opinion and is never heard from again? (A doppelganger is a regular poster who has disguised his/her identity for whatever narcissistic reason makes sense to them at the moment.) Lets vote on it.... I think there is a spike in posting numbers whenever there is a flame war. When I look at those number below I can remember during periods of highest posting a spectacular 18 or so month flameout that saw some of the heaviest participation this newsgroup has ever seen. But these were mega-flamewars and not an exchange of orchid information. And just subtracting the posts of one particular heavy poster from these numbers and I don't see a real spike at all.... What is a TOS? Doesn't it have something to do with a persons service provider? Did you contact Mick's service provider and what was their response? This is not a new threat to Mick if my memory serves me correctly. And there has been a pattern to his response in the past, but we shall see, I suppose if anything new comes of this. What to do in a newsgroup when even the flame wars are repeats of repeats.... sigh. And finally, FWIW, could this be the flame war we have not had in so many months. How do you all start these things? Honestly. I keep trying but can't seem to ignite one on my own and frequently when I try to join one in flagrante delicto it just seem to die out quickly...like I peed on it or something. But I do keep trying. Maybe this time it will be different.... Al PS. And oh yes, I have one more thing to add. During one flame war I actually received an order in the mail with a check and a hand written apology from someone who thought the way I was being treated on this newsgroup was rude. It made me feel kind of creepy because I though the person taunting me was kind of clownish and not to be taken seriously and this is one reason why I steer clear of advertising or selling on this newsgroup and for this reason you rarely see me post my URL, (orchidexchange.com) posted here even when I have a spectacular 20% off sale going on. Have a great thread. This could be good! And PPPPPS. If you are researching my participation you will get very skewed results. I have changed my name and email address several times. My aliases don't show up in that very interesting link Joanna provided. "jtill" wrote in message oups.com... Believe what you like. I will always resist muggings on this or any forum. It is hard to TOS a hit and run flamer but easy to TOS a regular. On some forums viewers run 200 views to one poster or more. Who knows why they only lurk, but, they are there. IMHO one mugging can move hundreds to abandon this forum. Besides, I CANNOT stand idly by and watch a hit without defending the hitee. Not in me. If this forum finds Mr. Fournier's antics acceptable I will move on, no big thing. The web is full of forums, and asyou say everything is now known about orchids, no questions left, just a place to bicker. Joe T Archive Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1994 243 219 195 206 222 192 332 1995 350 205 265 314 359 362 337 371 426 348 313 511 1996 464 419 429 506 472 369 422 441 463 380 452 465 1997 502 512 508 470 527 446 452 256 380 427 423 475 1998 527 449 510 460 588 674 568 682 576 746 961 939 1999 997 1053 957 1135 1068 815 1036 1107 1366 991 933 641 2000 1026 785 941 1156 790 764 1007 1014 869 1182 884 860 2001 1238 1174 1123 799 822 897 1005 1070 896 1282 956 1044 2002 909 808 972 845 725 537 541 498 710 556 744 798 2003 784 807 605 651 612 658 813 783 850 529 757 627 2004 908 758 708 719 517 525 575 567 601 548 723 619 2005 543 443 607 480 450 334 426 477 363 448 493 396 2006 372 298 444 492 417 441 313 180 J Fortuna wrote: Joe T, Sorry, but I don't believe that the lower posting rates in RGO are due to violations of TOS. http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ is a tool that allows one to search for all kinds of interesting statistics about this newsgroup. Among other things, you can find out there that RGO has been much less active this year than last year -- for example: using August 1, 2006 to get the statistics for a year, last year there were 5533, and this year only 2968; in contrast using August, 1, 2001 to get statistics for a year, 12158 "this year" (meaning Aug 1, 2001 back to Aug 1, 2000, I think). And yet in February 2001 there was a message to this forum entitled "Why are people so mean on this forum". I think you will find reading through the archives that this group has actually become much more tame and friendly to newbies over time rather than the opposite. RGO used to have some ferocious flame wars, and yet during those days the number of messages was much higher. Mick Fournier has been a member of this forum since Jun 19 1997, and in this time he has been exceedingly rude at times, exceedingly funny at other times, and given useful information at other times, and sometimes even all three of these at once, but you cannot blame the declining participation in this forum on Mick's behavior because then this forum would have had it's lowest turnout years ago, when Mick's tirades were really ugly. Believe it or not, Mick seems to have calmed down significantly over the years, and he is no longer nearly as rude as he used to be. Just read the archives in groups.google.com searching for group:rec.gardens.orchids author:fournier if you don't believe me. So there must be another explanation for decline in participation in this forum. How about the fact that newsgroups in general are an old mode of communication? I have not been able to find statistics for all of Usenet/Newsgroups but I bet that the overall numbers have declined over the years. Joanna "jtill" wrote in message oups.com... The point is, violations of TOS harm this forum and drive away posters. I think Mr. Fournier has violated the TOS and wish he would quit doing that. Years ago I watched RGR Flamed till it was ruined. There are folk that turn to RGO for help and discussion, that is what they should get. We all, Experts and Newbies, should provide that. Simple, polite corrections should should stop OT posts. Did I make that clear? Joe T The data I used came from GOOGLE. J Fortuna wrote: RGO posts, author Mick Fournier, July 2000, 21 RGO posts, author Mick Fournier, July 2000, 1 I do not know the orchid sales of Mick Fournier during that time, and whether or not they have shown a steady growth. Joe T, what point were you trying to make with these RGO stats? Joanna PS: the RGO posts, author Mick Fournier stats quoted above are based on a search using http://groups.google.com/advanced_search (I don't know what you were using for your stats Joe T, but groups.google.com returns only 241 results for RGO for 2000, and only 41 in July 2006 -- although I think groups.google.com returns threads as results and not individual messages, so that might account for the difference in our stats. "jtill" wrote in message ups.com... snip RGO posts, July 2000, 1007. RGO posts, July 2006, 313. Orchid sales during that time have shown steady growth. Joe T Baytown |
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On 17 Aug 2006 09:24:05 -0700 in .com jtill wrote:
Believe what you like. I will always resist muggings on this or any forum. It is hard to TOS a hit and run flamer but easy to TOS a regular. On some forums viewers run 200 views to one poster or more. Who knows why they only lurk, but, they are there. IMHO one mugging can move hundreds to abandon this forum. Besides, I CANNOT stand idly by and watch a hit without defending the hitee. Not in me. If this forum finds Mr. Fournier's antics acceptable I will move on, no big thing. The web is full of forums, and asyou say everything is now known about orchids, no questions left, just a place to bicker. Bah, get over yourself. If it weren't for the occasional well crafted flame, I'd have tossed USENET years ago. I attribute the lower posting rates to USENET due to 1) The marginalization of USENET by ISPs. It doesn't make sense to carry net news when it just increases your costs and your odds of being sued by RIAA or MPAA. 2) The September that finally ended. AOL and its ilk caused a lot of folks to abandon USENET, and replaced them with thin skinned whiners. 3) The Trotskyesk reinvention of USENET as blogs and web forums. Why accept a flame archived for all to see when you can just censor it yourself? Need to astroturf a bit? Do it without publicly visible logs. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1994 243 219 195 206 222 192 332 1995 350 205 265 314 359 362 337 371 426 348 313 511 1996 464 419 429 506 472 369 422 441 463 380 452 465 1997 502 512 508 470 527 446 452 256 380 427 423 475 1998 527 449 510 460 588 674 568 682 576 746 961 939 1999 997 1053 957 1135 1068 815 1036 1107 1366 991 933 641 2000 1026 785 941 1156 790 764 1007 1014 869 1182 884 860 2001 1238 1174 1123 799 822 897 1005 1070 896 1282 956 1044 2002 909 808 972 845 725 537 541 498 710 556 744 798 You know that correlates quite well with the post 9/11 layoffs and the takeoff of blogs and most ISPs giving up on providing USENET themselves. 2003 784 807 605 651 612 658 813 783 850 529 757 627 2004 908 758 708 719 517 525 575 567 601 548 723 619 2005 543 443 607 480 450 334 426 477 363 448 493 396 2006 372 298 444 492 417 441 313 180 And let's be honest, nearly the entire representation of folks with sufficient clue to track down the TOS of the poster's ISP and the poster's news service can be found as regular posters to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. Plus, Mick isn't as big of an asshole as I am. -- Chris Dukes "The key to effective management is properly timed hovering." |
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oh lucky you. If only I saw the same.
"Pat Brennan" wrote in message ... "Mick Fournier" wrote and I snipped: Even emailing overall on the net is declining... everyone prefers IM-ing now. The decline in email may have more to do with the fact that spammers are now being put behind bars. I am getting much less spam then I was a few years ago while receiving more statements and 'faxs' via email. |
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"Mick Fournier" wrote and I snippped: Newsgroups participation could easily be argued to be down because every question about a topic (especially orchids) can be answered instantaneously now by just Googling the question... Most googled orchid culture questions will return a thread from our group on page 1 or 2. Anyone googling 'orchid photo theft' will not find much useful in RGO and move on. |
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"J Fortuna" wrote and I snipped: .. So there must be another explanation for decline in participation in this forum. How about the fact that newsgroups in general are an old mode of communication? I have not been able to find statistics for all of Usenet/Newsgroups but I bet that the overall numbers have declined over the years. RGO is available from several different gardening site. You do not have to have a newsreader or even know what Usenet is to be part of RGO. |
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:47:22 -0400 in Pat Brennan wrote:
wrote in message and I'm in a snipping mood: 3) The Trotskyesk reinvention of USENET as blogs and web forums. Why accept a flame archived for all to see when you can just censor it yourself? Need to astroturf a bit? Do it without publicly visible logs. Hey Chris, Years ago when I used to post at work, I could add something to my post and dejanews would not archive it. Do you know if that option is still available now that Google is doing the archiving? Well, X-noarchive: yes in headers or first line of body is supposed to work. But I'm of the mindset that that's just a flag to put it in a database to be available for a fee. Plus I have dim memories of running a news server for an employer where all employee posts with the X-noarchive header were retained should management request them for review. One of the great failings of x-noarchive was that anyone could post a followup that appeared to quote the entire text, but contained something completely different. -- Chris Dukes "The key to effective management is properly timed hovering." |
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"Mick Fournier" wrote and I snipped: Even emailing overall on the net is declining... everyone prefers IM-ing now. The decline in email may have more to do with the fact that spammers are now being put behind bars. I am getting much less spam then I was a few years ago while receiving more statements and 'faxs' via email. |
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wrote in message and I'm in a snipping mood: 3) The Trotskyesk reinvention of USENET as blogs and web forums. Why accept a flame archived for all to see when you can just censor it yourself? Need to astroturf a bit? Do it without publicly visible logs. Hey Chris, Years ago when I used to post at work, I could add something to my post and dejanews would not archive it. Do you know if that option is still available now that Google is doing the archiving? Pat |
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:31:08 -0400, "Pat Brennan"
wrote: RGO is available from several different gardening site. You do not have to have a newsreader or even know what Usenet is to be part of RGO. Now that is the archive I would like to shoot down. Why should some other group reproduce our discussion as their own material? Periodically we get e-mail from someone who has read this "archive" as a live post on a garden forum. They are also the reason our posters are down. There must be 6-10 forums that purport to cover the subject of orchids and each tries to act as if they are the ONLY source of reliable information. We even had a kid in the OS start one and complain because we did not want to sign in and be monitored. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids |
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Joe,
I can't stand ass-wipers like you. Go screw yourself. Mick |
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Al,
You're right... by the time you get involved in a hot thread it is nearly too late and already on the way out, but I will help out RGO on this one. WE will re-energize this thread to make it a real scorcher. I love heated threads (as all orchid vendors do) because the hotter the thread the hotter the buying juices that rise up in the RGOers. My sales always go up in these "times of trouble/confrontation"... and you know what I am talking about Tonto. Mick PS, I am confused... is www.orchidexchange.com having a spectacular 20% off sale right now this minute? |
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Chris,
I think you are trying to dethrone me. Mick ======================== wrote in message g... On 17 Aug 2006 09:24:05 -0700 in .com jtill wrote: Believe what you like. I will always resist muggings on this or any forum. It is hard to TOS a hit and run flamer but easy to TOS a regular. On some forums viewers run 200 views to one poster or more. Who knows why they only lurk, but, they are there. IMHO one mugging can move hundreds to abandon this forum. Besides, I CANNOT stand idly by and watch a hit without defending the hitee. Not in me. If this forum finds Mr. Fournier's antics acceptable I will move on, no big thing. The web is full of forums, and asyou say everything is now known about orchids, no questions left, just a place to bicker. Bah, get over yourself. If it weren't for the occasional well crafted flame, I'd have tossed USENET years ago. I attribute the lower posting rates to USENET due to 1) The marginalization of USENET by ISPs. It doesn't make sense to carry net news when it just increases your costs and your odds of being sued by RIAA or MPAA. 2) The September that finally ended. AOL and its ilk caused a lot of folks to abandon USENET, and replaced them with thin skinned whiners. 3) The Trotskyesk reinvention of USENET as blogs and web forums. Why accept a flame archived for all to see when you can just censor it yourself? Need to astroturf a bit? Do it without publicly visible logs. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1994 243 219 195 206 222 192 332 1995 350 205 265 314 359 362 337 371 426 348 313 511 1996 464 419 429 506 472 369 422 441 463 380 452 465 1997 502 512 508 470 527 446 452 256 380 427 423 475 1998 527 449 510 460 588 674 568 682 576 746 961 939 1999 997 1053 957 1135 1068 815 1036 1107 1366 991 933 641 2000 1026 785 941 1156 790 764 1007 1014 869 1182 884 860 2001 1238 1174 1123 799 822 897 1005 1070 896 1282 956 1044 2002 909 808 972 845 725 537 541 498 710 556 744 798 You know that correlates quite well with the post 9/11 layoffs and the takeoff of blogs and most ISPs giving up on providing USENET themselves. 2003 784 807 605 651 612 658 813 783 850 529 757 627 2004 908 758 708 719 517 525 575 567 601 548 723 619 2005 543 443 607 480 450 334 426 477 363 448 493 396 2006 372 298 444 492 417 441 313 180 And let's be honest, nearly the entire representation of folks with sufficient clue to track down the TOS of the poster's ISP and the poster's news service can be found as regular posters to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. Plus, Mick isn't as big of an asshole as I am. -- Chris Dukes "The key to effective management is properly timed hovering." |
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