Is Rec.Gambling.Poker still worth reading?

[cbloom]

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Usenet started it's downfall circa September, 1993, when AOL users where unleashed upon Usenet. Since then, it's been slowly dying, and the once glorious Usenet is now reduced to spammers, trolls, conspiracy nuts and utter morons.

There are still a few oasises out there that captures some of the former greatness of Usenet, but rec.gambling is not one of them.

R.I.P. Usenet [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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It's really sad what happened to Usenet. RGP was really instrumental in the development of modern poker. I used to spend a lot of time in comp.compression and comp.lang.c and sci.physics ; they used to be filled with the top professors in the field, but now aside from spam and trolls the main denizens are perpetual-motion-machine-nutjobs and kids making "do my homework for me" posts. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Cactus Jack]

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Usenet started it's downfall circa September, 1993, when AOL users where unleashed upon Usenet. Since then, it's been slowly dying, and the once glorious Usenet is now reduced to spammers, trolls, conspiracy nuts and utter morons.

There are still a few oasises out there that captures some of the former greatness of Usenet, but rec.gambling is not one of them.

R.I.P. Usenet [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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It's really sad what happened to Usenet. RGP was really instrumental in the development of modern poker. I used to spend a lot of time in comp.compression and comp.lang.c and sci.physics ; they used to be filled with the top professors in the field, but now aside from spam and trolls the main denizens are perpetual-motion-machine-nutjobs and kids making "do my homework for me" posts. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Once upon a time, it was the place for great porn. sigh

[suzzer99]

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Once upon a time, it was the place for great porn. sigh

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Are you saying alt.bestiality.hamster.duct.tape fails to deliver like it used to? Nooooooooooooooo.

[Quadstriker]

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RGP = Spam city

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[iron81]

There is a lot of Spam on RGP, but there are still people who contribute by posting strat or asking for trip advice. It isn't dead, it just isn't very good.

For those who want to check it out, go to recpoker.com or recgroups.com for an html interface. I might read 2+2 now, but my best days in poker were while I was reading RGP and I'll remember it fondly.

[RiverPlay]

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And LuckyJimm!

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Go Jimm! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[GaryTheGoat]

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There is a lot of Spam on RGP, but there are still people who contribute by posting strat or asking for trip advice. It isn't dead, it just isn't very good.

For those who want to check it out, go to recpoker.com or recgroups.com for an html interface. I might read 2+2 now, but my best days in poker were while I was reading RGP and I'll remember it fondly.

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I concur completely. I started lurking there in 1998 with my webtv. lol

There used to be great strategy posts by Mike Caro, byoon, AbdulJalib, even Tad Perry and many others. There may be some of same now but I can't seem to get through all the spam to find it.

Funny. In the wild west days of old, I actually preferred the unrestricted, unmoderated "freedom" of rgp to the moderated "hobnail boot of the state" censored aspects of 2p2. Now it seems all the good stuff is buried by said freedom.

If/when I get banned here, will I get to retain my luker's license. I guess that I could do without lurking, but I wouldn't really like it.

[Crane]

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Is it worth reading RGP alongside 2+2?

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No. It's a sewer.

[iversonian]

Speaking of old school, anyone know what ever happened to Vince Lepore? I went on 2p2 hiatus a while back, and I just realized he never posts anymore.

[beset]

Weren't carson and all them going to start a moderated newsgroup? I kind of like the simple usenet format but those days are over forum software even as clunky as 2p2 is much better.

Russ G. posts are still fun to read.