From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   > The Usenet newsgroup rec.radio.amateur.moderated will be ten years old   
   > this month, having been created on February 22, 2007.   
      
   rec.radio.amateur.moderated is all but dead - it hasn't had a new topic   
   from an individual poster there since last September, for heaven's sake   
   that's five months. It's been on its death-bed for ages. Do it a   
   kindness and pull the plug.   
      
   > We are also pleased to see another high-quality moderated newsgroup for   
   > amateur radio, this one for the United Kingdom,   
   > uk.radio.amateur.moderated, created on December 15, 2015.   
      
   And since March 2016 it has been in decline; posts, new threads, and   
   posters have all gone down by very significant amounts. A regular report   
   on UKRAM, posted in its sister unmoderated group, has had to be revised   
   to 28-day reporting periods (from the original 7 days) to help disguise   
   the fall in numbers. By the poor standard of RRAM it's doing well,   
   though, but the parallels are there and that isn't saying much.   
      
   > If you haven't participated on Usenet in a while -- either by reading or   
   > posting -- please consider rejoining us.  If you've never been on   
   > Usenet, we invite you to give it a try!   
      
   'Don't bother' is the best pragmatic advice that can be given here.   
      
   > Usenet is still very much alive, and can be a useful venue for many   
   > topics, including amateur radio.   
      
   The rest of the rec.radio groups are either essentially moribund,   
   blog-fests, or some combination of the two. They are not even retaining   
   people, let alone attracting new contributors. What is needed is a   
   complete and utter revamp, preferably by a team having the capability of   
   original thinking, to renew and relaunch the current system, which has   
   totally failed.   
      
   UKRA might have its issues, but lack of use isn't one of them - and it   
   contains in one week more AR-related posts than the combination of the   
   entire rec.radio group plus UKRAM.   
      
   You need to find out why this should be so, and apply it to the failed   
   rec.radio hierarchy.   
      
      
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