From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 20/02/2017 13:55, Jerry Stuckle wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Naughty.   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   LOL. You do realise what you just said there?   
      
   > Sorry, your attempts to close a newsgroup that doesn't allow your vile   
   > bullcrap isn't working.   
      
   "Einmal solche Macht in mein handen zu haben"   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   Quite. I really don't understand what the thinking was regarding the blogs.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   The mods have to keep terminating OT thread drift, after which it goes   
   quiet.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Oh, and how it shows!   
      
      
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   Spike   
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