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  Why here are so few people nowdays ? H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-02-04 06:30 -0800
    Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-04 15:18 +0000
      Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2021-02-05 01:35 +0000
      Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> - 2021-02-05 14:38 -0300
        Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-05 20:48 +0000
          Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-02-05 22:12 +0000
            Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-06 00:21 +0000
          Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-02-06 07:32 +0000
            Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:36 +0100
          Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:34 +0100

#12059 — Why here are so few people nowdays ?

Only Amine mostly.

Can someone tell ?




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#12060

H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> writes:

> Only Amine mostly.
>
> Can someone tell ?

It's mainly because of people like you and Amine.  This used to be an
interesting group covering many aspects of programming, but it relies on
people posting questions or starting interesting threads.  Anyone
looking at the group in recent years will just see endless junk posts
and conclude that it is not worth posting here.

A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
you think.

-- 
Ben.

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#12065

Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote in 
news:87eehvj1ys.fsf@bsb.me.uk:

> H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Only Amine mostly.
>>
>> Can someone tell ?
> 
> It's mainly because of people like you and Amine.  This used to be an
> interesting group covering many aspects of programming, but it relies on
> people posting questions or starting interesting threads.  Anyone
> looking at the group in recent years will just see endless junk posts
> and conclude that it is not worth posting here.

Correct.
 
> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
> you think.

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#12069

Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Only Amine mostly.
>>
>> Can someone tell ?
>
> It's mainly because of people like you and Amine.  This used to be an
> interesting group covering many aspects of programming, but it relies on
> people posting questions or starting interesting threads.  Anyone
> looking at the group in recent years will just see endless junk posts
> and conclude that it is not worth posting here.

Well said.

> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
> you think.

I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.

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#12071

Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:

>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>> you think.
>
> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.

Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!

-- 
Ben.

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#12074

Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
> 
>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>>> you think.
>>
>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
> 
> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!
> 

My introduction to computing involved punching cards to feed into a 
English Electric KDF9 front end to an ICL 1904 (or 6, I've forgotten). 
But I doubt that it counted as serious work 'cuz it was student 
exercises of which I recall only one: write a PLAN (the assembly 
language) program to print the Fibonacci sequence.

-- 
When, once, reference was made to a statesman almost universally
recognized as one of the villains of this century, in order to
induce him to a negative judgment, he replied: "My situation is
so different from his, that it is not for me to pass judgment".
Ernst Specker on Paul Bernays

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#12075

Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
>>
>>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>>>> you think.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
>>
>> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
>> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!
>
> My introduction to computing involved punching cards to feed into a
> English Electric KDF9 front end to an ICL 1904 (or 6, I've
> forgotten). But I doubt that it counted as serious work 'cuz it was
> student exercises of which I recall only one: write a PLAN (the
> assembly language) program to print the Fibonacci sequence.

Students do serious work!  I briefly worked for ICL so I know PLAN, but
I never used anything with holes in it at ICL.  But before going to
university I worked as a programmer on am IBM 360.  It did have a few
terminals for interactive work, but they were operated only in the
afternoons and I rarely used those.  The rest of the time it ran punched
card jobs.

-- 
Ben.

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#12076

On 05/02/2021 20:48, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
> 
>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>>> you think.
>>
>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
> 
> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!

And Ben doesn't mean the write-protect hole on floppy disks.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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#12078

On 06/02/2021 08:32, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 05/02/2021 20:48, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
>>
>>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group
>>>> than
>>>> you think.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
>>
>> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
>> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!
> 
> And Ben doesn't mean the write-protect hole on floppy disks.
> 

I once saw someone use a hole punch on a 5¼" floppy so that it could be
filed nicely in a folder.  (I've also seen someone role one into a
typewriter to type a label for it.)

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#12077

On 05/02/2021 21:48, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
> 
>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>>> you think.
>>
>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
> 
> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!
> 

I used punched tape for programming a numerically controlled milling
machine during a work experience week as a teenager.  Does that count?

And when I learned assembly, my programs were all written on paper (with
holes for filing in folders) then hand assembled - the tape drive on my
ZX Spectrum was not very reliable for recording.

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