The constant hatred of the fanatic from changing alt.sport.foosball to rec.sport.table-soccer and his dispise of being lumped in with a game called subbuteo
from 1995
I disagree with Table Soccor over Foosball.
Do you ask your friends to play table-tennis or Ping Pong?
Do you ride a personal water craft or a JetSki?
Do you blow your nose with a tissue or a Kleenex?
I play Foosball
I'm still mad about the name change of this group. I believe it has hurt the popularity and amount of postings and has confused new internet users. I just did a rough calculation of how many times table-soccer was used in a Subject Line vs. Foosball in the subject line, and I didn't count the FAQs. The results are just as I hoped: 80% of users use the word "Foosball" and only 20% or less use the word "Table-Soccer". I personally hate that the word we all used is not the title of the group. There is still no reason for this. Alt.sport.foosball still gets many postings because people do a search for the word "Foosball"
Someone once said that we need the Rec. to somehow legitimize the group and gain acceptance through more internet providers. Most internet providers carry all 15,000 groups now. Alt's are as popular as any rec. In fact, I'd say ALT's are even more popular! I'm also sick of this Subbuteo crap! Subbuteo could be the greatest game in the world but I don't give a rat's ass about it! This is like combining Ping Pong and Badminton because they both use a racquets. These games are so drastically different that it is foolish to lump them into one internet group. And, if I remove all the subbuteo postings, the alt.sport.foosball gains even more ground for posting totals vs. rec.sport.
I'm sorry but I'm rebelling and curtailing all my posts back to alt.sport.foosball where they belong. If you agree, please join me in the crusade! Alt.sport.foosball kicks rec.sport.table-soccers ass!
Well I don't think I can chill out but I syre like the idea about separating the groups. Again I've got more analogies...there's alot of ways to gamble in vegas and they all use cards and they are played on green felt tables. But there is a rec.gambling.poker and a rec.gambling.blackjack.
I continue to wonder about the validity of table-soccer vs. foosball...my neighbour is from France and when I showed him the table he called it baby foot, he did not understand the word foosball or table soccer. I think calling it table soccer is no less confusing to the rest of the world then calling it foosball. Alt.sport.foosball, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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