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"Tim May" <tcmay@got.net> wrote in message
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>
> > On 29 Jan 2003 19:09:02 -0800, twentydollarnosejob@yahoo.com ($20 Nose
Job)
> > wrote:
> >
> > >"A. Holnitz" <andyh34@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > >news:<R5zZ9.2087$lg6.897491174@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>...
> > >> Most L.A. restaurant discussion has moved to Chowhound.com.
> > >
> > >I know you love Chowhound. Many of us don't. Do you really need to
> > >troll through la.eats for new users?
>
> And "Chowhound" is like nearly all of the Web-based chat forums, Yahoo
> Groups, etc. It has an idiosyncratic format which makes most techniques
> learned with newsgroups unusable (e.g., posting articles is different
> in Chowhound, Yahoo Food Forum, etc.).
>

And vice versa.

> Any look at Chowhound will see that there is very little discussion,
> just isolated restaurant reports. None of the repartee and dissent one
> finds in the best of the newsgroups (ba.food being a lot more active
> than la.eats, for example).
>

This is true in any moderated news groups.  Yet there are plenty of
discussion in Chowhound.  For example, there is a recent long thread on the
Slanted Door (negative).  What you won't find are interminable threads of
non-restaurant related discussions.

> A lot of Web-based fora become saturated with advertisements--on the
> sides, across the top, scattered amongst the text, and now in pop-ups.
> Yahoo Groups is especially bad in this way, with annoying ad banners in
> many places on the screen and obtrusive pop-ups saying: "This site is
> supported by advertising...click here to download an annoying Flash
> animation before being allowed to proceed to the next article."
>
> One advantage that Chowhound does have is that people can check up on
> restaurants in areas they may not know the newsgroup for (for instance,
> someone travelling to Buffalo may not know if there is a newsgroup
> dedicated to Buffalo). However, Google Groups has made finding
> references to more obscure geographic areas, like Buffalo, a lot easier
> to find.
>
> But, having spent time with Chowhound and with my home food newsgroup,
> ba.food, I have to say that Chowhound is a pale imitation of a real
> newsgroup.
>

Probably because it has no pretention to be a newsgroup.

> --Tim May