On 27/10/14 01:02, rickman wrote:

Does anyone ever talk about amateur radio in these groups?

UKRA used to be a lively and interesting AR group, before those that
claimed it was a 'cesspit' started to believe their own rhetoric and
then tried to turn it into one.

The rec.radio.amateur.* series is basically a wasteland of cross-posted
blogs and newsletters; if they were merged into one single group at
least it would spare the bandwidth wasted in the cross-posting. Time for
a US-based RFD, perhaps.

I understand that the person who had a hand in cleaning them up from
whatever they were suffering from before now indirectly has a hand in
trying to clean up ukra by proposing a parallel moderated group, and
perhaps the above is the reason so little UK-based support has emerged
for the proposal.

--
Spike

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by
men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding" Louis D. Brandeis