rec.sport.unicycling

[tr4nspo]

I've been member for quite a time but still don't know the exact meaning of rec.sport.unicycling.
Can anyone please put some light in my darkness!
Thanks in advance

[Jerrick]

Its mainly where you would ask question that are unicycle related, new tricks, new equpment, also unicycle vids get posted here. People write up their unicycling stories here. Meetings are in here, creating clubs, unicycling games.

If it has to do with unicycles and the sport, it goes here pretty much, Just conversation is for everything else, like talking about who won last nights game, what everyones favourite color, ect.

Thats pretty much how it works.

[Eroick]

rec.sport.unicycling is a newsgroup rather than just a forum. You can recieve it and post on it by email. Here is RSU on google groups: http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.sport.unicycling

[gkmac]

Originally Posted by Eroick

rec.sport.unicycling is a newsgroup rather than just a forum.
...
Here is RSU on google groups: http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.sport.unicycling

I prefer to say that rec.sport.unicycling was a newsgroup, with this forum setup as a convenient web mirror.

Nowadays, since 99.99999% of people seem to use the forum at least to post messages, I think it's safe to say it is now a web forum in it's own right, with the rec.sport.unicycling newsgroup merely mirroring that.

Does anyone still use USENET?

[rob.northcott]

Originally Posted by gkmac

Does anyone still use USENET?

Apart from Klaas?

[dan de man]

hey nice avatar

[tr4nspo]

Nou dat gaat me weer net een beetje te ver!
What was that all about?
I've got my answer, the only thing I wanted to know was the meaning of rec.sport.unicycling. And didn't mean to get all those "heavy" conclusions of why and whynot this had evolved to this actual situation/state.

[unijesse]

so unicycist.com is just another convenient siteto read rsu? gilby has nothing todo with the creation or anything?

[john_childs]

Originally Posted by tr4nspo

What was that all about?
I've got my answer, the only thing I wanted to know was the meaning of rec.sport.unicycling. And didn't mean to get all those "heavy" conclusions of why and whynot this had evolved to this actual situation/state.

Well you did ask for the exact meaning of rec.sport.unicycling
Learning a little history about the community is a good thing.

[uni57]

Originally Posted by tr4nspo

And didn't mean to get all those "heavy" conclusions of why and whynot this had evolved to this actual situation/state.

Then I'm glad it wasn't me who went through the trouble of giving a comprehensive, thoughtful answer to your question. Remind me not to bother next time you ask a question.

gkmac wrote:

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> Does anyone still use USENET?
>

Yeah. And what about it?

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[Danny Colyer]

Originally Posted by gkmac

Does anyone still use USENET?

Yes. I do all of my reading on usenet, and really CBA to use web fora for reading news.

I've recently taken to using the forum to post on the basis that, with the majority of readers using the forum, it's probably beneficial to have a recognisable avatar and a bold underlined name. Compare my details to the left of this post (as viewed in the forum) to those on the left of my posts in this thread:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/sho...ht=Reflectives

I still wouldn't bother posting through the forum if it was any extra effort, but actually it's remarkably easy to just click on the "View this thread" link at the bottom of the usenet message, then click "Quote" and enter my password.

[andycookuk]

Rec.Sport.Unicycle means (if you didn't know DUH)

Recreation > Sport > Unicycling

it's like sub headings

Politics
Cooking
Recreation
Yoga
Sky Diving
Sport
Unicycling

[trials_uni]

Rec.Sport.Unicycling. Im pretty sure it means Recreational and Sport Unicycling. It is by far the most comprehensive unicycling database on the web.

[Eroick]

here is how all newsgroups work. First you have your highest level. In this case, it is recreation (REC). From there you have sub groups, in this case, sport and then sub sub groups, in this case unicycling. Here is another example: comp.sys.mac.apps.