Dead Newsgroups?

[Jürgen Exner]

[Note: Cross-posted to 4 affected groups]

A year ago when I checked last these rec.aquaria.* newsgroups were alive and
thriving with several dozen informative postings every day.
However for the last month or so there were maybe half a dozen postings
total. What happened? Was there a major reorg that my ISP didn't implement?

jue

[Charles]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:23:09 GMT, "Jürgen Exner"
> wrote:

>[Note: Cross-posted to 4 affected groups]
>
>A year ago when I checked last these rec.aquaria.* newsgroups were alive and
>thriving with several dozen informative postings every day.
>However for the last month or so there were maybe half a dozen postings
>total. What happened? Was there a major reorg that my ISP didn't implement?
>
>jue
>


We had some people with a vendetta posting junk that made reading the
groups a really unpleasant experience. Everyone left.

[Reel McKoi[_10_]]

"Charles" > wrote in message
...
>
> We had some people with a vendetta posting junk that made reading the
> groups a really unpleasant experience. Everyone left.
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New people would join if there were enough posts here to interest them - no?

[Charles]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:56:50 -0600, "Reel McKoi"
> wrote:

>
>"Charles" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> We had some people with a vendetta posting junk that made reading the
>> groups a really unpleasant experience. Everyone left.
>========================
>New people would join if there were enough posts here to interest them - no?


Until it all turned to garbage again.

[Reel McKoi[_10_]]

"Charles" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:56:50 -0600, "Reel McKoi"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Charles" > wrote in message
...
>>>
>>> We had some people with a vendetta posting junk that made reading the
>>> groups a really unpleasant experience. Everyone left.
>>========================
>>New people would join if there were enough posts here to interest them -
>>no?
>
>
> Until it all turned to garbage again.
=======================
But we'll enjoy it while we can. :-)

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

Jürgen Exner wrote:

> [Note: Cross-posted to 4 affected groups]

Hm.., there are more than four infected (er affected) groups..

> What happened?

Well an exodus but a lot of fishy folks changed to TFA - The Freshwater
Aquarium, a Google group on internet. On the one hand spam-free threads,
nice people, active discussions but on the other hand a very poor G2 user
interface..

> Was there a major reorg that my ISP didn't
> implement?

Moderated groups..?

BTW: Look rpm (rec.ponds.moderated) is doing well..
--
cu
Marco