Homebrew PCBs

Clue.

Neither moderated usenet newsgroups nor moderated yahoo groups allow the users to select the moderators.

In both cases, moderators are chosen at the start-up of the group, usually chosen by the person most responsible for start-up.  In most cases, when the moderators seek new moderators they ask for volunteers and then select the most suitably-tempered volunteer(s) they get.

It's not very democratic.  It's more republican.  At least for these social milieus, it generally works pretty well -- and anybody who doesn't like it is welcome to go start their own group, at least on yahoo, facebook, etc.

Nowadays, usenet is pretty well deprecated.  I moderate a usenet group and wouldn't mind if it went away, since we haven't had an on-topic post in several years.  However, we WILL have at least a few on-topic messages soon, since there's a related group that I actively seek to have removed, as it's far outlived its usefulness, and the RFD /CFV for that group will be announced on the group I moderate.

I would vote FOR a CFV to completely pull the plug on usenet, as long as all the posts were suitably archived.  Everything.  Even including such divisive stuff as the Jammu-Kashmir debate and all the netkook fodder.  I still get tickled when I think about alt.karlmaldens.nose

73
Jim N6OTQ



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> From: DJ Delorie <dj@...>
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 11:35 AM
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Discussion of top, bottom, middle posting is OFF TOPIC
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>jeremy youngs <jcyoungs76@...> writes:
>> In america we have freedoms which apparently you do not value.
>
>In America, we respect the rules of private forums such as Usenet
>(Usenet is not run by the government, therefore not "public" by USA
>definitions).  As this is a private forum, the members of which who have
>chosen moderators to enforce the group rules of conduct, any action of
>the moderator is considered to be "the will of the people" here.
>
>I fully support our moderator in any action he takes to keep the content
>of this forum in line with the rules of this forum.
>

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