From: jstucklex@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2/20/2017 4:10 AM, Spike wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   It doesn't need its plug pulled.  What it needs is a moderator who   
   doesn't spam usenet with other people's blogs.  And some of it seems to   
   be without the permission of the authors, which is a copyright violation.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   You keep claiming that, but the facts speak otherwise.  And you had to   
   change your reporting period to try to hide the amount of activity on it.   
      
   Sorry, your attempts to close a newsgroup that doesn't allow your vile   
   bullcrap isn't working.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   As it stands now, I agree.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   Again, it is the reposting of blogs that has driven people away.   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   When you take away all of the vile bullshit from you and your pals, UKRA   
   has is even less amateur radio related stuff than there is on rram.   
   That's why ukram was formed and why it is successful.   
      
   > You need to find out why this should be so, and apply it to the failed   
   > rec.radio hierarchy.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The answer is simple.  But those who repost blogs aren't listening.   
   They think they know it all already.   
      
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