The Usenet newsgroup rec.radio.amateur.moderated will be ten years old
this month, having been created on February 22, 2007.
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.
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!
Usenet is still very much alive, and can be a useful venue for many
topics, including amateur radio. The long-standing advantages of Usenet
newsgroups still remain, and include:
- The user can control the interface (choices of newsreader software)
- killfiles
- threading
- unified, but distributed, discussion on specific topics
- efficient use of bandwidth
- rugged, distributed transport system that has been in place for
decades
More information about rec.radio.amateur.moderated can be obtained from:
http://www.panix.com/~rram/
More information about access to newsgroups can be obtained from:
http://www.big-8.org/articles/n/e/w/...Providers.html
More information about newsreader software can be obtained from:
http://www.big-8.org/articles/n/e/w/Newsreaders.html
The rec.radio.amateur.moderated newsgroup can also be accessed via
Google Groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!fo...teur.moderated
RSS:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ab...teur.moderated
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RecRadioama...enetNewsgroup/
and Twitter:
https://twitter.com/recradioamateur
Additional thanks, and credit for our success, go to:
- The Big-8 Management Board for Usenet
http://www.big-8.org
- Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC (Panix)
http://www.panix.com
- Igor Chudov, author of Secure, Team-Based Usenet Moderation Program (STUMP)
https://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump/
Here's hoping for many more successful years!
--
rec.radio.amateur.moderated Moderation Team