Tell me why I shouldn't.....
Carey Gregory
newsgroups other than the binary groups, it has been replaced by web-based
forums.
If you disagree, speak up and give me a convincing reason why it should
continue.
Oh, and be prepared to take over moderating the group in your argument. :-)
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Carey Gregory
Moderator - alt.emergency-services.moderated
danny burstein
>I see no reason to continue maintaining this group. Like virtually all
>newsgroups other than the binary groups, it has been replaced by web-based
>forums.
>If you disagree, speak up and give me a convincing reason why it should
>continue.
Inertia good....
>Oh, and be prepared to take over moderating the group in your argument. :-)
ummm....
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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dan...@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Kurt Ullman
Carey Gregory <tiredof...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I see no reason to continue maintaining this group. Like virtually all
> newsgroups other than the binary groups, it has been replaced by web-based
> forums.
>
> If you disagree, speak up and give me a convincing reason why it should
> continue.
>
> Oh, and be prepared to take over moderating the group in your argument. :-)
So, where are the web-based fora? Where you hangin' out (so I know at
least one person. G
Carey Gregory
> So, where are the web-based fora? Where you hangin' out (so I know at
>least one person. G
I still hang out here, of course, and occasionally skim the other emerg
services newsgroups, but I think all the popular kids went to the forums on
paramedic.com. (I've been too lazy to bother joining there so far.)
The reality is there hasn't been an actual *discussion* here in many moons.
The guy known as california_chief was regularly posting a gazillion news
articles for a long while, but he suddenly went MIA last Nov. Since then
there have been a total of six posts from three people, all news articles.
Yeah, six posts in three months..... zzzzzzzzzz
I'll keep Danny happy with a little inertia and keep it going for a while.
Maybe a pulse will spontaneously reappear? I'm sure someone has a story in
which they swear they saw that happen once, but color me skeptical.
From what I've seen, most people under 40 or so these days have no clue
what newsgroups are or even how to access them. Your and Danny's presence
here marks you as dinosaurs, you know. ;-)
Kurt Ullman
Carey Gregory <tiredof...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> From what I've seen, most people under 40 or so these days have no clue
> what newsgroups are or even how to access them. Your and Danny's presence
> here marks you as dinosaurs, you know. ;-)
Been called worse.. today... by my wife (g).
Of course that makes you the lead dinosaur
Carey Gregory
Brian Humphrey
marches on.
Hobbes, its a great big world out there, let's go exploring... <sigh>
-BH-
Blippie
YES!
NO!
I dunno. Seems a shame to let go. I used to love Usenet but only have a
little rummage through every month or so now.
There's no alt.emergency-sevices group. How about going unmoderated?
Cheers
Blippie
--
Ten minutes of this rain will do more good in half an hour
than a fortnight of ordinary rain in a month.
Carey Gregory
>There's no alt.emergency-sevices group. How about going unmoderated?
That would just be a duplication of misc.emerg-services
The whole point of AESM was to be MES minus all the spam and trolls. Which
it is, more or less. You'll note that MES is pretty much equally dead these
days.
Blippie
>That would just be a duplication of misc.emerg-services
>
>The whole point of AESM was to be MES minus all the spam and trolls. Which
>it is, more or less. You'll note that MES is pretty much equally dead
>these
>days.
Ah.
The defence rests.
Jeffrey S Austin FF EMT-FR
What would be required of me to continue the NG? What kind of workload do
you have just for this NG? Would the server that it sits on now still be
available to continue to host the NG? I might be willing to pick up the
effort, I might . . .
--
Jeffrey S Austin FF EMT-FR
Chesapeake VA
"I fight what you fear, the Red Devil."
Carey Gregory
>Carey,
>What would be required of me to continue the NG? What kind of workload do
>you have just for this NG? Would the server that it sits on now still be
>available to continue to host the NG? I might be willing to pick up the
>effort, I might . . .
It's not much work, actually, especially since I automated 90% of the
moderation. So workload isn't really the issue. The issue is best summed
up by the question, "Is anyone out there?"
Up until Nov 2007, the group averaged about 50 posts per month, with a few
months hitting 100+. But starting in Dec 2007, it plummeted to 1-2 posts a
month. Looking back, I realize that traffic had been artificially inflated
throughout 2007 by "Fire Chief" posting tons of daily news articles. He
vanished in December, and the traffic level immediately dropped to near
zero. Basically, the actual volume of "real" posts declined rapidly in late
2006/early 2007. The same thing happened to misc.emerg-services and
alt.med.ems. I think this just reflects a general movement away from
newsgroups and toward web-based forums and mailing lists. (The young ones
out there don't even know what usenet is or how to access it.)
You can see the group stats here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.emergency-services.moderated/about
So I was just wondering if anyone actually follows this group anymore, and
if there's any point in maintaining it.
Anyway, I'll keep it going for now. If I decide to pack it in, I'll post
here and offer to turn over moderation to someone else. Just be aware that
you'll need some technical savvy to set up and use the automated moderation
stuff I made, or do it yourself manually. If no one accepts, then the
group would become dead. It won't become unmoderated, it will simply become
dead. There's really no way to changed a moderated newsgroup to
unmoderated, and no moderator = no posts.