Teageek.net

It's pretty light on content. See, the big thing is that with any website (teageek, blogs, teachat, etc.) it is a centralized and impermanent thing. To pour time and resources into fleshing out a site like that could all be wasted and useless if the owner stops paying for hosting or the domain, and everything disappears forever. The great thing about groups like this (Usenet) is that they are decentralized, spread out amongst thousands of servers all over the net, and archived forever. Sure, theoretically it all could go away, but the chances are almost nil and it is free and possible for anyone to simply keep a server going on their own indefinitely.

It's something many people don't think about because favorite websites seem to stay around forever, but even well intentioned people get busy, get bored, move on, whatever and in an instant all of the compiled knowledge is gone too. Just something to think about.

- Dominic

I like the wikipedia format. Somebody put a lot of time in the Oriental Beauty entry I quoted recently which isnt found on The Free Encyclopedia btw. Dominic is right why contribute when it might crumble into Web dust. I do know there are tea pages still around that were spawned at the instant of the Web Big Bang.. Google Groups never forgets.

Jim

PS After the recent PPP I had sec> >

I couldn't agree with you more, Dominic. Despite all the annoyances, RFDT forever!

/Lew

You're right, of course. While the blogs and wikis and web sites are glitzy, there's a lot to be said for Usenet. And you said it. There's been discussion on RFDT lately about whether people have been leaving us for these blogs, etc. I guess we'll always be here if/when they decide to come back.

Alan