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  1. 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

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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_
    *
    *

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

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  5. 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.

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  6. Eroick said:

    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?

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  7. tr4nspo said:

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

    A n d y C s t r i k e s a g a i n !

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  8. 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'
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup) (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.

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  9. gkmac said:

    Does anyone still use USENET?

    Apart from Klaas? 😉

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  10. hey nice avatar😎

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    tomtrevor said:

    how the hell do u get fluro brown??? it would also probably look like
    uve dunked the uni in a big pile of [censored]

    iridemymuni said:

    What colour [censored] do you do tom ? flouro brown [censored]? thats kinda weird

    tomtrevor said:

    y do u want to know the colour of my [censored]? like that just isn't natural
    for someone to think that.


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  11. ::🙁 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.::
    :: ::

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

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  13. unijesse said:

    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.

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  14. johnfoss said:

    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.

    ohhhh!

    hey, so if you went to a diff. website to read/post in rsu, could
    someone like chuck norris or someone like that post? since there only
    blocked from unicyclist.com?

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  15. tr4nspo said:

    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.

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  16. gkmac said:


    Does anyone still use USENET?

    Yeah. And what about it?

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  17. john_childs said:

    99% of the posts now are from the Unicyclist.com forum.

    From http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/rsu2005.htm :

    "By the end of 2005, about 97.5% of all posts originated from the
    forum, and if anything, the percentage is still rising."

    Looking at the picture on that website, I doubt that the percentage is
    up to 99% already, we'll have to wait till Jan 2007 to know. But it's
    close indeed.

    Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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  18. tr4nspo said:

    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.

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  19. Klaas Bil said:
    john_childs said:

    99% of the posts now are from the Unicyclist.com forum.

    From http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/rsu2005.htm :

    "By the end of 2005, about 97.5% of all posts originated from the
    forum, and if anything, the percentage is still rising."

    Looking at the picture on that website, I doubt that the percentage is
    up to 99% already, we'll have to wait till Jan 2007 to know. But it's
    close indeed.

    Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

    I was just taking a WAG and pulling a number out of the air. It's an
    accident if it happens to be close to the correct number.

    I need to get my news reader setup again. I moved and now have a new
    ISP. I haven't bothered yet to figure out what they have for Usenet
    access.

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  20. gkmac said:

    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://tinyurl.com/opbjf

    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.

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