Re: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: news.admin.technical

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:40:41 CST
Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> wrote:

Russ Allbery wrote:

Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> writes:
 

Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to
revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another
newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?

 
I personally would appreciate a forum for talking about Usenet software
where peering decisions, spam, and network abuse are rejected by
moderation so that the discussion was only about the technical issues of
software implementation.

 
OK, I stand corrected, but in my defense I now realize that this is a
special case.  This newsgroup will/would be used by the very few people
who are specifically interested in Usenet for Usenet's sake.  In the
general case, trying to revive a moderated newsgroup that has been dead
for years is just silly.

In that case then trying to revive Usenet at all is just silly.

Your logic is killing the network effect in the cradle.