Have you thought of maybe creating a group for non moderated stuff. I steer
clear of moderated groups due to the long delays and tendency for my input
to be moderated, which makes me think its a clique based group who cannot
welcome anyone not technical enough.

The problem with Usenet is mainly the closure of isp based news servers.
There are still free ones out there, but new people do not seem to want to
know about usenet, they prefer the clunky and awkward forums which tend to
be run by a specific group so if they die, all goes with them, unlike
usenet.
Googles interface does not help as everyone thinks its google when its
really not. I was around when it was Deja but many were not and do not know
the history of the groups.
Brian

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Brian Gaff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg (Strider) Moore"
Newsgroups: sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.histo ry
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 2:10 PM
Subject: Future of moderation for sci.space.tech, sci.space.science


The time has come the moderator said,
to talk of news and ships and space facts
of invoices and things.
And if he is paying not
And whether pigs have wings

Quite seriously, my annual bill has come for the account I use to manage
moderation of sci.space.tech and sci.space.science.

I have to decide within the next week or so whether to bother renewing it
or
simply cancelling it.

To be clear, it is NOT about the money, or even really the time I put into
it. It's about whether it has a future.

Two of my fellow moderators seem to have dropped completely off of Usenet,
so if I do keep on moderating, I may look for a co-moderator to share the
light burdens.

In the past few years, due almost exclusively due to the efforts of Paul
Schleck, we now have automatic news feeds and twitter feeds.
This was in theory to drive up more traffic and more discussion, but in

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"Greg (Strider) Moore" wrote in message
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The time has come the moderator said,
to talk of news and ships and space facts
of invoices and things.
And if he is paying not
And whether pigs have wings

Quite seriously, my annual bill has come for the account I use to manage
moderation of sci.space.tech and sci.space.science.

I have to decide within the next week or so whether to bother renewing it
or
simply cancelling it.

To be clear, it is NOT about the money, or even really the time I put into
it. It's about whether it has a future.

Two of my fellow moderators seem to have dropped completely off of Usenet,
so if I do keep on moderating, I may look for a co-moderator to share the
light burdens.

In the past few years, due almost exclusively due to the efforts of Paul
Schleck, we now have automatic news feeds and twitter feeds.
This was in theory to drive up more traffic and more discussion, but in
reality it appears to have done very little.

If folks have ideas to increase traffic and discussion, please contact me.

However, I will not be lowering the standards (which are already honestly
a
bit lower than I might otherwise wish).

I have never blacklisted any individuals, nor do I plan to. I will
moderate
to the best of my ability and discretion, strictly on content.
This leaves out many of the more speculative type posts and pretty much
any
of the conspiracy theories out there.