It's not even republican, it's a plain old dictatorship.
The group owner (and his cronies) decides what's on and what isn't,
and frankly I'm just fine with that.
You know beforehand who the owner is, and you are free to leave at any
time (can't do that with some real life dictators, haha).
Anyway, long live the king!
Steve doesn't get any thanks for the time he puts in running this list
and the others, it's really way out of line to give him grief over
doing his job.
Did any of you even notice how he put Dave on moderation in order to
remove the offending signature for him?
That's what I call service.
ST
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jim <n6otq@...> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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>
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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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