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Comments on: On-Line Discussion Groups https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Rantings of a Civil War Historian » Cowardice https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-14524 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:45:14 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-14524 […] the same time, there is one particular member that I have posted about here previously is permitted to insult everyone, to be snide, and condescending, but not only is he not […]

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By: Jim Epperson https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1851 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:05:09 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1851 With all due respect to the brothers Lawrence, the GDG is not the oldest online
ACW discussion group. In addition to H-CivWar and the two Usenet groups, I
would venture that there are several bulletin board type groups that still survive.

JFE

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By: Jim Epperson https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1850 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:29 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1850 The Usenet groups are not entirely dead. The unmoderated group (alt.war.civil.usa)
is clearly on life-support. I agree with Dave Smith that in its heyday it was a valuable
source of discussion and erudition, some of which Dave supplied. The moderated
group (soc.history.war.us-civil-war) is still having meaningful discussions, and I
encourage all to go there.

JFE

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1849 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:19:45 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1849 Art,

Yikes…..that person would have been excommunicated if he were on my board. That’s grossly inappropriate.

Eric

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By: Art Bergeron https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1847 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:48:30 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1847 Eric, I have had “discussions” with people like Fred on various boards and groups over the years. There was one fellow in particular on the old Prodigy board who seemed to take particular delight in twisting many of my posts and in engaging in personal attacks against me. As best I could tell, he did so largely to try to show how much (little?) he knew about certain topics, and he did his best to paint me as some kind of Neanderthal because my publications have not attacked the Confederacy and its supporters as successors to Nazi Germany.

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By: Dave Smith https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1846 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:16:33 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1846 That unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, as much of a cesspool as it has, was for a period of time (95 to say, 2000) a pretty good source of discussion. If you go back to the archives of that group, you’ll find a broad group of posters who continually challenged each other.

A number of folks you will find on Yahoo groups, and other forums, are former veterans of alt.war.civil.usa. As bad as it is now, it was at the time a marvelous source of discussion.

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By: Harry https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1845 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:07:51 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1845 I wouldn’t say I “missed it”. I didn’t mention any groups by name. My experience is that usenets operate in a manner similar to what I referred to as online forums, or bulletin boards (H-CivWar and the old Compuserv forum fall into this category). I didn’t want to specifically identify groups and appear to endorse or condemn any in particular. And there is one notorious unmoderated CW usenet group into whose cesspool I would not want anyone to unwittingly fall 😉

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By: Stephen Graham https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1841 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:59:12 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1841 As relatively old as the Gettysburg Discussion Group is, there are older Internet-based groups. For instance, H-CivWar dates from 1993. I’m sure if I poked around a bit, I could find older e-mail lists.

And there’s also Usenet, which gets missed – Harry Smeltzer in his discussion on Civil War Bookshelf missed it as well.

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1835 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:32:29 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1835 Kevin,

I view it the same way. For reasons that remain a complete mystery to me–I can’t get an explanation for it–I’ve been permanently banned from one of those sites, and they constantly discuss my stuff. Occasionally, I will hear from one of them asking me to answer questions, and I tell them, no, that if I’m permanently banned, they don’t get the benefit of my knowledge, that there’s a price to be paid for my inexplicable banning, and that price is that I will, under no circumstances, answer questions that I know will be passed on and posted there. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to do that. 🙂

Eric

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By: Kevin https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216&cpage=1#comment-1834 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:06:38 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=216#comment-1834 Hi Eric, — I briefly touched on my general dislike of on-line groups in an earlier post. The other day I was killing time and decided to browse Yahoo’s Civil War forum and came across some very insulting comments that were levelled at me. It turns out that one of my readers will on occasion copy and past bits of my blog posts or refer readers to the site. Well, you know that some of the things I touch on rub people the wrong way. That said, I was surprised just how hateful some of the comments are. Anyway, I got a real kick out of it and thought what an honor it is that they think I am sufficiently worthy to discuss. Perhaps I am doing something right.

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