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* ECM stolen! 1994 Civic EX KA5MT - 2 messages, 2 authors
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TOPIC: ECM stolen! 1994 Civic EX KA5MT
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/efa9267daf3e957f?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 23 2011 7:10 pm
From: Tegger
abeness <none@nada.net> wrote in news:4d8a89b4$0$10153$607ed4bc@cv.net:
> On 3/23/2011 7:29 PM, Tegger wrote:
>> Usenet in general is dying; it doesn't attract nearly the audience it
>> once did.
>
> Yeah, it's pretty sad. I hadn't noticed just how sparse the posting
> has been here in past months. Another board I frequent is practically
> dead, too, though that's in large part because the software it
> concerns hasn't been updated in almost 10 years. It's only
> "old-timers" that know about NNTP these days, and its port was off by
> default on my school's firewall.
>
> Personally, I despise the web-based boards a-la phpBB and the like.
> Though they have some advantages, I'm of the old-school, preferring
> clean, plain-text Internet communication. Heck, I read my email in
> monospaced Courier most of the time...
My big problem with Web is that all the Web boards I've tried or looked at
have an extremely high glitz-to-information ratio. By that I mean messages
occupy 10% of the screen, and images, smileys, flashy ads, and white space
occupy the other 90%.
>
> So what are the successors to this board? honda-tech.com, which Elle
> mentioned? What else?
I've lurked in honda-tech.com. It's an appalling hodgepodge of ricers,
aftermarket junkies, clueless newbies, near-illiterates, me-too'ers,
halitosis-sufferers, voluntary shut-ins, Walmart shoppers, flood-pants-
wearers, navel-noodlers, people who refuse to move to the rear of the bus
as others get on, and other unfortunates. And it's typical of /all/ Web
boards. Maybe I'm too old, but I just can't take to it. If Web-board
software at least had THREADING and a killfile, I might change my mind.
But then again, most of those aformentioned defectives used to inhabit
Usenet before they deserted for the glitter of Web boards, so I guess I'm
not missing much...
> Ultimately I'm just curious, since I won't have a car soon.
And staying that way?
--
Tegger
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Mar 27 2011 7:09 am
From: Elle
On Mar 23, 5:46 pm, abeness <n...@nada.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Elle. Nice to see you still here. I ordered one from a yard in
> MO for $95 shipped. Hard to beat THAT price! Now I just hope that the
> traffic cops here are kind. We have alternate side parking regs that
> mean we have to move the car several times a week for street cleaning,
> and the part won't be here till Fri or Mon (depending on how lazy our
> UPS guy is feeling). So far so good.
>
> I gotta say, that salvage yards are putting parts online is rather
> amazing. Makes perfect sense, of course.
It seems to be working, business-wise, so it sure is a boon for
hobbyists without a good set of wrecking yards near their homes. Good
to have your preliminary report.
Contrary to Tegger's opinion, I think honda-tech is better than the
usenet car groups. Just the pictorial DIY reports that many hobbyists
post all by themselves are invaluable. I am picking up all sorts of
good anecdotal reports on the 01-05 Civic generation that alert me to
possible problems. The mods there do a good job of making it a useful
web site. The ad content is low in my opinion.
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