On Feb 23, 7:50*pm, msg wrote:
Telamon wrote:

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So why does this name-calling persist? Are the participants invested
in some Lemon-Mathau "Grumpy Old Men" style of rivalry? *There are
never any emoticons or cues to the intensity of remarks so one can
only conclude that they are either done in animosity or in
poorly-constructed mock indignation, left up to the reader to deduce.

Well Michael you picked an odd time to bring this up seeing as it has
died down. Maybe you are just bored? Troll someplace else.

- I am just getting very disillusioned with the state of some
- Usenet N.G.s that used to be informative and technically
- useful and have become the arenas for bad behavior.
-
- Suggestions to "ignore posts or threads" from certain
- originators doesn't improve the S/N ratio, or make navigating
- any easier. The ongoing noise level also dissuades new
- participants and repels veterans.
-
- There has been some recent discussion about reforming
- the charter or at least the FAQ for this N.G.; I would like
- to see a clear code of conduct as an amendment.
-
- Look to comp.arch.embedded for a well behaved unmoderated
- N.G. with truly outstanding participants and a lot of useful
content.
-
- Michael
-

MSG,

Nice Idea but . . .

Does No Good without a Core Group of Active Moderators
and an old-time UseNet Group like Rec.Radio.Shortwave is
not set-up to Moderate across all the possible entry-points
into it.

Requires a new forum that has a single entry-point and
is by-design a Moderated Group.

* Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/

* Yahoo! Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/

+ plus their are many others . . .

Are two such Moderated Group Forums. ~ RHF

=PS= Telamon is ready to call everyone a "Troll" -but-
in-fact Telamon is himself a "Trill" in the continued Game
of Newsgroup "Ping-Pong" with and about d'Eduardo.
[ Ping-Pong ~ Trill-Troll ]

da trill of it all - pong ! ~ RHF