Re: Google stats on postings
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Maine)
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:23:27 -0700
Terence <tbwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unfortunately, this Forum is a public newsnet made available through
Googgle (for me).
As has been noted *MANY* times before, that is your personal choice. I
see no point in repeating in detail the recommendations previously
posted by many people. I use individual.net, but there are plenty of
other fine options, including free ones. Individual.net costs 10 Euros
per year, which is close enough to free for me, and has the advantage of
keeping some of the worst of the spammers out.
I see the sales and sex junk of the last three months is increasing
and the Fortran postings decreasing.
And that is one of the many consequences of your choice. I see almost
none of that junk.
Are there possibilities and volunteers to start a new MODERATED
Fortran Forum, where the job of the moderator(s) is to delete spam and
make evrythink more readable and more searchablel?.Any ideas,
suggestions?
I'd say the odds were about zero. Moderating an active newsgroup like
this one is a big job. There are also other negatives, such as inherent
delays in posting to a moderated group. You would not only need to get
the group approved and a moderator set up, you would also need to get
the posters to go there. I, for one, wouldn't do so as I'm happy with
the newsgroup as it is. (For one, it has quite a good "reputation" as
newsgroups go.)
There are already other Fortran discussion forums if that's what you
want. There's a g95 google group, which I have occasionally glanced at,
but don't frequent. (I have noticed that a large fraction of the
questions on it have little to do with g95 in specific, but are just
Fortran programming questions). There is the comp-fortran90 mailing
list, which I used to be on before I retired, but I never subscribed my
home address. I've mostly been happy to "hang" out here and am not
inclined to move. Of course, it might be that you'd think a group that I
didn't move to would be an improvement. :-)
Sorry, but the shortcommings of your personal choice in newsreaders
don't seem like very persuasive reason for everyone else to change the
whole newsgroup and saddle someone with the large job of being a
moderator. I sure ain't going to volunteer. Being retired, I even have
the time in theory, but that's not how I choose to spend it.
If you really want to pursue it anyway, there are long-established
procedures for such things. Google "usenet group moderation". The second
hit (after the wikipedia entry) is the moderated newsgroups FAQ, which
tells you everything you would need to know. I'm not inclined to go to
the work of reading and summarizing it. I will note that there is a
newsgroup specifically for the discussion of such things, and I'm pretty
sure I recall that discussions of modifying a newsgroup are supposed to
be cross-posted there and in the newsgroup proposed to be modified.
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email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
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