Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / October 2003

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If they're like me they indeed know it exists.

OTOH, I find it a bother and serious eater-of-my-hobby-time to have to
prowl through a bunch of different forums just to find the discussions
of interest to me.  Same problem with RCU, and several other similarly
structured sites.

Also, the RCU type sites including RCFN don't have an e-mail function

Yahoo has a 'better' approach, IMHO.  I habituate Futaba9z,
GSWarbirds, IMAA, and a couple other Yahoo groups.  These groups are
more focused and for the most part are moderated reasonably well.
They have the singular advantage of allowing you to receive no e-mails
at all (you have to log on to read the new posts), or to receive a
digest of recent posts, or to receive all posts via e-mail.

I prefer the latter, 'cuz ya never know when someone will pop up with
that true nugget of wisdom worth preserving.

Additionally, since each group is fairly narrow in it's area of
interest, you don't get any nut cases pumping out porn or 'Grow A
Bigger Hootus" crap.

There never has been a single site that did a very good job of being
all things to all r/c modelers.  Even USENET split up the old
rec.models.rc into several more focused news groups, and that was a
decade or more ago.  Maybe two, I forgot.

Maybe RCFN is interesting when you're starting out and haven't figured
out your likes and dislikes in the hobby, but I suspect that the folks
who have been at this nutty avocation for a long while are a bit more
refined in their reading preferences and have settled on specific
groups or mailing lists for their internet 'feedings'.

I did, a long time ago.

Lately, this news group has taken a turn I'm not sure I much care for,
in that the size of the twit filter seems to be growing at a fairly
constant rate.

Having said that, this august pack of lunatics is decidedly docile
compared to some of the other wrecks.

rec.woodworking has been thoroughly trashed by a couple of hate-monger
porn-artists intent on doing just that, trashing the news group with
porn.  Pretty soon they'll be there by themselves, as more and more
hobbyist and professional wood workers appear to be moving in droves
to Yahoo wood working venues because the bozos cannot get admitted
there.

Works for me.

Enjoy RCFN.  It'll probably do you some good.

When you've got your sights fixed on where you want to grow in the
hobby, you may find that RCFN doesn't fill the bill quite the way you
thought, and you may move on to more dedicated venues.
Cheers,
Fred McClellan
the dash plumber at mindspring dot com

I personally like http://www.rcgroups.com 
They have the biggest user base besides rcu and they are still free. I
dont see near the traffic there, but its still free.

Thanks
Jim

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Unfortunately a lot of people don't know RCFN exists because some
forum sites (such as RCU) don't allow other sites to be mentioned.
They want to be the only game in town.

I no longer hang out at RCU.  I visit

Torqueroll.com (which I run)
RCFlying.net
this newsgroup
and occasionally RCGroups.com

all of which run the same software as the old RCU and are much easier
to use and navigate in my opinion, but thats just my preference.

Kevin