Anyone there?

On Apr 3, 9:51*am, "Eddie Lyons" wrote:
There are probably more people lurking than actually posting. I know I post
very little -- and not at all for several years until I came back to the
online world a few months ago. The reality is that there's very little
that's useful, interesting or constructive going on in usenet these days.

Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message

...

Seems the groups aren't doing so well.... :-(

I seem at times to have 10,000+ lurking, at least according to what my
Google account keeps reporting as the number of message views per
week. How about yourself?

What exactly does that accounting of message views per week actually
mean, as it's not accounting for all those readers that never bother
to use the Google Usenet/newsgroup method of access.

~ BG

snip

post. Which sucks, because we wind up missing certain events that
deserve discussion, such as last month's passing of a Lost Cosmonaut
that nobody seemed to notice.


Jim Oberg noted it very briefly on FPSpace -- Vladimir Ilyushin. But he
wasn't really a Lost Cosmonaut, like Bondarenko or Nelyubov, for example. He
was a test pilot who happened to be linked to the supposedly fatal (yet
non-existent) pre-Gagarin flights made so infamous by the Judica-Cordiglia
brothers.

Oberg didn't provide a date for Ilyushin's death. Having just Wikipediaed
it, his date of death was 1 March.


Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK

Quiet everyone , he might hear us

On 4/5/2010 1:43 PM, Eddie Lyons wrote:



Jim Oberg noted it very briefly on FPSpace -- Vladimir Ilyushin. But he
wasn't really a Lost Cosmonaut, like Bondarenko or Nelyubov, for example. He
was a test pilot who happened to be linked to the supposedly fatal (yet
non-existent) pre-Gagarin flights made so infamous by the Judica-Cordiglia
brothers.

I still think there's something fishy about the whole Ilyushin story and
him being sent to the Chinese health resort to recuperate after his car
accident. By the time that was supposed to have happened relations
between the Soviet Union and China were cooling, and the Soviets would
be very unlikely to admit Chinese health care was in any way superior to
what he could get at home.

Pat

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:51:12 +0100, "Eddie Lyons"
wrote:

There are probably more people lurking than actually posting. I know I post
very little -- and not at all for several years until I came back to the
online world a few months ago. The reality is that there's very little
that's useful, interesting or constructive going on in usenet these days.

Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK


"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
...
Seems the groups aren't doing so well.... :-(


I've been lurking here for about 15 years, and maybe have posted four
or five times. I'm fascinated by the history of space flight (having
been born in 1950, and encouraged in my interest by my father -- who
was a very intelligent factory worker without a high school diploma),
and find this newsgroup an ever-flowing (shut UP, Pat!) font of
education.

And there are a few useful, interesting, and constructive groups
around; we just don't advertise them much.

On Apr 17, 5:49�pm, OM wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:06:51 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

The thing I miss is Rusty Barton's great NASA document links.

...Missing links aside, what *I* want to know is what the ****
happened to Rusty. His disappearance is so total that it was almost as
if he was trying to erase his existence.

� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �OM


ANY CHANCE he was employee of a nasa contractor?

What was the name of the one who got fired for posting here, and
having a website?

This event seemed to drive some away, no doubt for fear of losing
their job...

On 4/17/2010 11:11 AM, Paul Madarasz wrote:
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:51:12 +0100, "Eddie Lyons"
wrote:

There are probably more people lurking than actually posting. I know I post
very little -- and not at all for several years until I came back to the
online world a few months ago. The reality is that there's very little
that's useful, interesting or constructive going on in usenet these days.

Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK


"Alan wrote in message
...
Seems the groups aren't doing so well.... :-(


I've been lurking here for about 15 years, and maybe have posted four
or five times. I'm fascinated by the history of space flight (having
been born in 1950, and encouraged in my interest by my father -- who
was a very intelligent factory worker without a high school diploma),
and find this newsgroup an ever-flowing (shut UP, Pat!) font of
education.

And there are a few useful, interesting, and constructive groups
around; we just don't advertise them much.

The thing I miss is Rusty Barton's great NASA document links.
He used to also have his great websites dedicated to individual missiles
that were the ultimate reference for them on the web.

Pat

"OM" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:06:51 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

The thing I miss is Rusty Barton's great NASA document links.

...Missing links aside, what *I* want to know is what the ****
happened to Rusty. His disappearance is so total that it was almost as
if he was trying to erase his existence.

OM

Let's not get into Conspiracy Theory Territory now....

On 4/17/2010 5:40 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:


Let's not get into Conspiracy Theory Territory now....

His websites on the missiles went off the web fairly shortly after 9/11,
but I don't know if anything should be read into that.

Pat