Disrupting Usenet NGs
 

In message , Stephen Thomas Cole
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Brian Howie wrote:
In message , Stephen Thomas Cole
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rickman wrote:
On 12/7/2015 1:59 PM, Brian Howie wrote:
In message , Brian Reay writes
Jeff, please feel free to join RSGBTech, a Yahoo group which is
specifically intended for the technical amateurs and those who wish to
learn. It is moderated so the likes of Evans don't get to disrupt it.

If you would like an invitation, which speeds up the joining process,
drop me an Email. There is a valid address on my website.

There's a rumour on the Yahoo NDB list that the Yahoo groups may be
numbered. Rumour may stem from :-

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ya...0TN2IC20151205
#KMJHucvR0ufqhUcL.97

If Yahoo groups are taken down what are reasonable alternatives?

Usenet.


RFD uk.radio.amateur.rsgbtechgroup.moderated ?

Sounds like a plan, I'll get drafting.

The problem with Usenet is you can't have a repository of files . I
subscribe to the LTSpice and other yahoo groups that have colossal
libraries of useful stuff. Shifting that to Google Groups would be a
nightmare.


Well, couldn't a binaries group do the job? There's NSPs out there offering
10 years or so of retention, so any files dumped into, say,
uk.radio.amateur.rsgbtechgroup.binaries.moderat ed would be available for a
good long while yet.


I've used alt.binaries.schematic.electronics in the past. It's the only
binary group that Eternal September carry. I strongly suspect a uk
binary group wouldn't make it past a CVF.

Brian
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Disrupting Usenet NGs
 

Brian Howie wrote:
In message , Stephen Thomas Cole
writes
Brian Howie wrote:
In message , Stephen Thomas Cole
writes
rickman wrote:
On 12/7/2015 1:59 PM, Brian Howie wrote:
In message , Brian Reay writes
Jeff, please feel free to join RSGBTech, a Yahoo group which is
specifically intended for the technical amateurs and those who wish to
learn. It is moderated so the likes of Evans don't get to disrupt it.

If you would like an invitation, which speeds up the joining process,
drop me an Email. There is a valid address on my website.

There's a rumour on the Yahoo NDB list that the Yahoo groups may be
numbered. Rumour may stem from :-

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ya...0TN2IC20151205
#KMJHucvR0ufqhUcL.97

If Yahoo groups are taken down what are reasonable alternatives?

Usenet.


RFD uk.radio.amateur.rsgbtechgroup.moderated ?

Sounds like a plan, I'll get drafting.

The problem with Usenet is you can't have a repository of files . I
subscribe to the LTSpice and other yahoo groups that have colossal
libraries of useful stuff. Shifting that to Google Groups would be a nightmare.


Well, couldn't a binaries group do the job? There's NSPs out there offering
10 years or so of retention, so any files dumped into, say,
uk.radio.amateur.rsgbtechgroup.binaries.moderated would be available for a
good long while yet.


I've used alt.binaries.schematic.electronics in the past. It's the only
binary group that Eternal September carry. I strongly suspect a uk binary
group wouldn't make it past a CVF.


Particularly not a moderated one, and even more particularly not a ukra
related one! I was, though, just being facetious there. IIRC, the
guidelines say that binary groups are near verboten in uk.*.

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