On 02/12/14 13:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/2/2014 4:30 AM, Spike wrote:

Keep in mind the forthcoming vote for the formation of a UK Usenet
Amateur Radio moderated group. If you want to see how successful the US
version has been - they have the same US chap behind their formation,
and the US Charter has been virtually cut-and-pasted - visit
rec.radio.amateur.moderated.

Which is an entirely different newsgroup, with entirely different
moderators. There are many who refuse to take part in that newsgroup
for various reasons. There is no relationship between the two.

*For now* the moderators are different. but with a freemason-type
succession policy nothing can be guaranteed.

You're really stretching now, Spike.

Only by noting that the chap who is behind the RFD is the same chap who
brought 'order' to the US groups (and RRAM can be seen by all to be the
roaring success of this policy[1,2,3]), and the Charter and ModPol for
the proposed group being little more than a cut-and-paste job, even down
to the Americanisms.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has the antecedents of
a duck, it's a duck.

[1] 61.7% blog posts

[2] Less than 1 post per day from individuals over 18 months

[3] The last gap between individual's posts was 4 days 2 hours.


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Spike

"Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad
law". Judge Rolfe