Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees!

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees!
Date	2014-02-26 00:11 -0500
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, 2phar wrote:

> On 2/9/2014 8:55 PM, Lance Orner wrote:
>> On 2014-02-09, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> sci.electronics.repair possibly the most awesomely useful/helpful group
>>>> ever. If you're into that sort of thing.
>>> 
>>> cakewalk.audio is still a refuge for a small cadre of audiophiles,
>>> comp.mail.mutt and comp.text.tex are still useful (the latter, in
>>> particular), and there are small, loyal groups still hanging out in
>>> alt.callahans and alt.fratellibros (both non-technical).  Same goes for
>>> comp.sys.mac.vintage (where vintage now means early 2000 G3 imacs) and
>>> comp.os.vms.
>> 
>> I forgot about comp.mail.mutt (still my go-to mail program, even with
>> Gmail, especially if I have a lot of pruning to do).  Wasn't there a
>> Vim group at one time?
>> 
>> I spent the afternoon poking around to see what's still active:
>> 
>> * comp.misc - Growing
>> * rec.food.cooking - Still around
>> * rec.games.pinball - Still very active
>> * comp.os.linux.misc - Still active
>> * comp.os.linux.advocacy - Wow, what a cesspool
>> * comp.lang.c++ - Very active
>> * comp.lang.python - Very active
>> * comp.text.tex - Just because
>> * comp.mobile.android - New site, looks active
>> * news.software.readers - Still trying to figure out what is still used
>> * chico.general - Dead, but the place I hung out 20+ years ago
>> 
>
> And all the rec.radio.amateur.* groups of course. A wonderful bunch.
>
No, those too are mostly dead.

Just because a newsgroup exists doesn't mean there is much traffic. 
Indeed, the Board has been slowly consolidating the newsgroups, checking 
for those with no traffic in a long time and basically saying "is there 
any reason this newsgroup shouldn't be deleted?" and then deleting.  It 
takes time to go through them all.

The rec.radio.* hierarchy is relatively dormant, at least the ones I read. 
I havent' checked .antennas of the digital ones in some time. 
rec.radio.shortwave is still doing sort of okay, but it's not what it used 
to be, and still way too much of the traffic is off topic junk. 
rec.radio.broadcasting is just posts from a bot, instead of providing a 
lure, it's driven out the few posts from real people that were there.

This is the problem  At one point, a group decided they needed a moderated 
amateur radio newsgroup.  It was created, yet once that moderated 
newsgroup came into existence, after the initial surge, it's mostly dead. 
The group behind the moderated newsgroup decided to "take over" the 
hieraarchy, so they are posting bulletins to the moderated newsgroup, 
rec.radio.info (where that sort of thing belonged) to .policy and .misc. 
None of that is discussion, it's just content taken from webpages or 
emailings from various groups.  There's no reason for those posts to go to 
four newsgroups, but it happens.  So .misc and .policy look active, but 
aren't.  Rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors has a few posts a month, depending 
on if someone actually posts.  rec.radio.amateur.equipment still gets too 
many forsale ads, when it as for the discussion of equipment, not for 
buying and selling.  rec.radio.amateur.homebrew is pretty dead, though 
right at the moment helped along by someone cross-posting to 
uk.radio.amateur so we replies that have nothing to do with building.

DOn't look at a newsgroup and declare it alive or dead, if it matters to 
you be a participant.

   Michael

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Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-06 22:38 -0800
  Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! xyzzy <stalkers-suck@grr.la> - 2014-02-07 00:16 -0800
  Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! "I'm Batman, Dammit" <batman@thecave.invalid> - 2014-02-07 09:44 +0000
    Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:39 +0000
      Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 22:46 -0500
        Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 23:14 +0000
          Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-10 01:55 +0000
            Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 21:12 -0500
              Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-09 18:28 -0800
                Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 23:35 -0500
                Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 12:39 +0000
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              Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:11 -0500
                Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-26 22:20 +0000
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    Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-07 19:30 +0000
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        Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-10 12:37 +0000
        Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-25 23:50 -0500
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    Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 00:15 +0000
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