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

[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.

[tr4nspo]

hey Jow Andy.
You're my man: finely somebody who understands me.
That was just what i meant.
Thanx 4 the explanation.

[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.

[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?

[andycookuk]

Originally Posted by tr4nspo

hey Jow Andy.
You're my man: finely somebody who understands me.
That was just what i meant.
Thanx 4 the explanation.

AndyC strikes again!

[john_childs]

The unicycling discussion forum has evolved over the years. It started as a mailing list. Then a Usenet newsgroup (rec.sport.unicycling) was created. The mailing list and newsgroup were tied together through a gateway so that posts to the mailing list would be forwarded to the newsgroup, and vice versa. Then Gilby added the web based forum at unicyclist.com. The rec.sport.unicycling forum here ties in with the Usenet rec.sport.unicycling group. Messages posted at Unicyclist.com get forwarded to the Usenet newsgroup and also to the mailing list, and vice versa. People still read and post to the Usenet newsgroup, but it happens that 99% of the posts now are from the Unicyclist.com forum.

A basic description of newsgroups is here (Wikipedia). Newsgroup names are hierarchical, so the name rec.sport.unicycling means that the newsgroup is in the main REC (for recreation) group, further divided into the SPORT hierarchy, and finally UNICYCLING.

So there you have it. We're still posting to Usenet here at Unicyclist.com even though it doesn't look like it.

[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?

[johnfoss]

Originally Posted by unijesse

gilby has nothing todo with the creation or anything?

Gilby did not create rec.sport.unicycling, or the mailing list that came before that. But he did create the Unicyclist.com community, and all the other forums besides rec.sport.unicycling.

Also he did not create unicycling.org, but its original creator, Beirne Konarski (who also did not create the newsgroup/mailing list) turned it over to him some years ago.