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Moderator announce: Closing rec.ponds.moderated - Your recommendations?
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Hash: SHA1 In Phyllis and Jim writes: We have come to the time when server fees are due for rpm. Looking at the low volume of usenet traffic and the increasing popularity of free social media, the moderation team recommends that we not renew the contract for the server and that we consider going to free social media. There are other groups available and we could start our own. The team would like to start a discussion to see what options people might like. Any opinions? Please contact me at your earliest convenience about several ideas I sent to you via E-mail, including: - Gatewaying rec.ponds.moderated discussion threads as updates to a Facebook page for the newsgroup. - Posting text abstracts, with links, of RSS feeds of several known pond-related blogs as they are updated. - Writing a Introduction/FAQ article for the newsgroup, including links to the existing Google Groups and GardenBanter web gateways of rec.ponds.moderated, and crossposting it each month to both rec.ponds.moderated and rec.answers/news.answers such that it is also archived at www.faqs.org. These have already been set up for other moderated newsgroups, and can easily integrated with your version of STUMP to post to your newsgroup automatically without moderator intervention. Usenet newsgroups, blogs, and social media are not mutually exclusive, and rec.ponds.moderated can support all of them while still existing as a Usenet newsgroup. If funding the newsgroup subscription is a challenge, I would be willing to contribute $20 towards another year's (or more) renewal. - -- Paul W. Schleck http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger for PGP Public Key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (SunOS) iD8DBQFPU4YN6Pj0az779o4RAnfbAKDS5c5OoigUa5PvqL4jMq 8R0wu6twCfZ/9M 6rnjj7vpxaNWiQ0OxcDo4kA= =/wI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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