"David" wrote in message
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On 28 Jul 2005 12:49:01 -0700, "John S." wrote:




Were you answering a question? Or did you become the group
moderator.

A few anal-retentive types were erroneously claiming that this group
was exclusively reserved for discussions of HF, which I have known
for
as long as this group's been around, to be false.

And off topic posts are strongly discouraged, too. The
FAQ obviously does a wonderful job of discouraging
that.

Is the goal to remove the political/religious discussion
or to make sure that the appropriate topic is discussed
in the right forum?? If it's the former, an RFD to make
r.r.s a moderated group would be the way to go. We
discussed this ad nauseum in 2000, so it wouldn't surprise
me in the least that it's being discussed again. The
solution then was to have several people create Yahoo
groups, and a lot of people who had good knowledge
to share but tired of the religious flame wars simply
migrated off r.r.s and to the Yahoo groups.

If the desire is to make sure the appropriate topic
(in this case satellite radio) gets discussed in the
right location (alt.radio.satellite), then a modification
of the Charter and FAQ is more appropriate.

Every usenet group is supposed to have an FAQ. I quoted from the
one
about rec.radio.shortwave.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/radio/monitoring/introduction/

If you have issues, I suggest you take them up with this guy:

http://www.brandi.org/logs/

Of course, the FAQ is a living document, and can be amended
as needed. When the FAQ was last modified in 1995, satellite
radio in it's current form did not exist. Nor internet radio.
Websites like rffun (Universal's), eham and others did not exist
in their present form, and all that disseminated knowledge
is not reflected in the FAQ. It would save a lot of time and
energy repeating commonly known things if the FAQ were
simply updated.

Cellular phones would qualify under the rec.radio.shortwave
FAQ, but you never see them spoken about here. Same with
satellite television or regular television. CB or scanners you'll
see once in a blue moon, but they qualify also. As written,
the FAQ is so broad that anything you can monitor using
a radio is on topic. Probably even using a radio telescope
for monitoring would be on topic too, but how often does
that show up on the menu??

The one big item not mentioned in the FAQ is "what is
a radio?" Everyone knew what that meant back then in
1995, but it's not so cut-and-dried now, given that the
traditional AM and FM modes of communication now
also have satellite digital decoders to share space with as well.

I think it's time that the charter and FAQ were updated to
reflect the changes of the past 10 years, and whether or not
certain topics should be covered by r.r.s.

--Mike L.