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Havachatwithhexy... 10-Mar-2005 At 9:34:22 PM HEX

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Manacubus :
>Due to the online revolution, print magazines will never again be a source of current news >or information. Everything breaks on the web first. Magazines can only seek to play “catch >up and compile”, presenting so-called current events from the period everyone has already >moved past. There is no need for editors anymore, filtering what comes out of the horse’s >mouth and sanitizing content for mass-consumption. I’ll put up with spelling errors and Hex’s >compulsion to use long strings of full stops if it means I don’t have to listen to anything >coming out of the Baxter-filter.

>Online all the way !

Neilo :
>The owners of this and Qurank have both mentioned to me their desire to shut the whole >thing down as it is just becoming out of control.

Richard :
>regarding the escallating costs of hosting this site, is it really necessary to keep all these >posts forever? How many posts from a year ago, 6 months ago, last month, ever get read >again. Maybe 0.001%?
>It would seem to me, that often the same question gets asked again, rather than the person >searching throught what has been said.
>Maybe all posts could expire after 6 or 12 months. Climbers seem very hung up on history...

Online all the way ? --- looks like the Australian-cyber-climbing-freight-train might be running out of stream , becoming de-railed and then ................. much gloating and smug-looks floating around the Rock-mag office ...

Hopefully Hexy isn't the only one with the fore-sight-retro-hind-sight to see the significance of Chockstone,CragX,Qurank, etal in the mid 2000s ...

Keep the archives , keep ya cool when posting , and ...

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