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