Funny, I use Pan 2 to surf newsgroups often, and never considered there
might be a good machining group. I'll add it to my subscriptions, and lurk.
Back when I was getting into Flash Actionscript coding, I joined
alt.macromedia.flash, and quickly learned most of everything ever talked
about in there, until someone in there invited me up to the big league,
which was (and remains) the Flashcoders list serve.
I was quickly overwhelmed by their brilliance. It was full of the authors of
all the Flash books at Amazon, and in brick and mortar stores, the guy who
wrote Flasm, a Flash bytecode disassembler, and people creating things like
real-time 3D texturing algorithms (back when there was no way to draw
individual pixels in Actionscript). I found that just by reading what those
far smarter than me would talk about, I picked up a great number of useful
bits of info. Even in lurk-mode, I bet the group will be a good source of
inspiration, and ideas. Also, thanks for the warnings of flame wars, and
such. They'll just seem funny to me now, as an outsider looking in :)
Thanks, Jon!
-g
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary Fixler wrote:
> >
> > All forums usually take some lurking, and FAQ reading to properly feel
> > out the group mood, and kinds of things discussed,
> Ther is the Usenet newsgroup rec.crafts.metalworking, which has
> been VERY good. Recently some idiot selling shoes from china
> has been blasting the group with spam, but he will eventually
> tire of that. Sometimes gets off topic, but a lot of great
> people on there.
>
> Also, alt.machines.cnc, although there has been a massive flame
> war between a couple of CAD/CAM vendors going on for several
> YEARS, there. However, the professional CNC machinists there
> have a HUGE amount of knowledge. It may be more slanted toward
> machining Inconel on a 10 ton Fadal than aluminum on a desktop
> machine, though.
>
> Jon
>
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