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On 10 Feb 2017 22:39:04 GMT, RAHE Moderator
wrote:

Today is February 10, 2017. There have been no posts in the
rec.audio.high-end newsgroup since December 2016.

We have a few options, and I will lay them out.

1. Close the newsgroup.

This is effectively what has happened anyway. If selected, I will
send a notice to various people r.a.h-e is now dead, and some
servers will stop carrying it. Others won't. Without a live moderator,
no more messages will ever appear.

2. Open the newsgroup.

In this proposal, rec.audio.high-end becomes unmoderated. Anyone
can post at any time on any subject. Spammers will likely run rampant,
and frequent flamewars between people who believe that they can hear
differences between certain things and people who believe that nobody
can hear those differences will dominate the non-spam content. (That's
just my opinion.)

3. Self-moderate the newsgroup.

There's a secret method to getting posts approved on rec.audio.high-end.
If you do it without authorization, people will consider your actions
despicable. In this proposal, I will grant that authorization to everyone.
Spammers will be unlikely to use it, but people who don't remember how to
do it will have their messages disappear without a trace. Moderation
effectively ends.

4. Find a new moderator.

Self-explanatory, I think.


Please let me know what you all think. Suggestions, comments, theorizing,
whatever: This thread is open to everyone, and is constrained to the
topic of "the fate of rec.audio.high-end", rather than the general
purpose of the newsgroup. The thread will close April 1, 2017, unless
there is an active discussion going on.

-dsr-

I just came here looking for a place to post about where to find some
PRECISION CAPACITORS (for an old piece of tube test equipment that
requires PRECISION Caps. I figured people working on high end gear would
maybe know where to get these caps. I did not know this group was
moderated, I've been on usenet for many years, but I thought all
moderated groups had the word "moderated" in the group name.

Yea, usenet is close to dead, but for old timers like me, there is no
alternative. I wont touch Facebook or any of that so called "social
media" Even if someone paid me to use that crap, I would not touch it,
unless the pay was quite large. Not only is that crap geared to kids
that talk worthless nonsense, and it's too darn slow and its filled with
ads, which are worse than the spam on usenet and can not be filtered,
but I also value my privacy, and if the young generation wants to sell
out and give away all their privacy on Facebook, let them do it, because
I wont....

Since I just came here for the first time, I guess I dont have much to
say, but I'd probably NOT do #1. Maybe try #4, and if thats not
possible, just open it up.... #3 sounds interesting, but I am not sure
how you "Self-moderate the newsgroup". Maybe worth a try though.
Just my 2 cents.