I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill

Bill wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill


seems like politics creeps into everything now days. and ruins it.

Bill wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill

We do have a 'troll' problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't
understand the whole process of creating and managing usenet newgroups
very well. However, there are things that can be done about this
problem, if people get sufficiently ticked off. It's sad to imagine
this group as 'moderated', but who knows....maybe that's what it will
take.

Steve

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:29:27 GMT, "Bill"
wrote:


I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill


It's important for our international friends to know we're not all
insane Christo-Fascists here in the USA, and that some of us are
resisting the usurpation of our country.

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Bill wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill

We do have a 'troll' problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't
understand the whole process of creating and managing usenet
newgroups
very well. However, there are things that can be done about this
problem, if people get sufficiently ticked off. It's sad to imagine
this group as 'moderated', but who knows....maybe that's what it
will
take.

You'd need someone as the moderator. I'm to busy to
do it; and I imagine that most others are too. Ace could,
but I doubt he'd want the job. Or the ng moderated, for
that matter.

--Mike L.

wrote:

Bill wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill

We do have a 'troll' problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't
understand the whole process of creating and managing usenet newgroups
very well. However, there are things that can be done about this
problem, if people get sufficiently ticked off. It's sad to imagine
this group as 'moderated', but who knows....maybe that's what it will
take.

Steve

For a newsgroup to be moderated, it has to be done at the time the
newsgroup is created. After it is in wide use there is no way to
change it other than to create a new, moderated newsgroup. The other
approach is for a lot of the users to report, and keep reporting the
worst off topic users to their providers, till they lose their
accounts. That takes a lot of time and a lot of people, but it is the
way newsgroups are supposed to self police themselves. Of course, the
offenders start screaming "NetKop" when it happens, but they are the
ones creating the problem in the first place. I have written this group
off as mostly useless. I don't think there is enough left to save.
--
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Michael Lawson wrote:
You'd need someone as the moderator. I'm to busy to
do it; and I imagine that most others are too. Ace could,

Most people have real lives, responsibilities, and friends. You should
feel sorry for someone who is so pitiful that he lives his entire life
through this newsgroup, who cannot put together a coherent argument,
and can only repeat the same potty-mouth potshots. He obviously does
not have the courage to venture into a real political discussion where
people would disagree with him, and he clearly does not even have the
intellect to join a forum where the majority would agree with him. He
may have a ham license, but he is probably a lid and an appliance
operator who does not know which end of the soldering iron is hot.

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Michael Lawson wrote:
You'd need someone as the moderator. I'm to busy to
do it; and I imagine that most others are too. Ace could,

Most people have real lives, responsibilities, and friends. You
should
feel sorry for someone who is so pitiful that he lives his entire
life
through this newsgroup, who cannot put together a coherent argument,
and can only repeat the same potty-mouth potshots. He obviously
does
not have the courage to venture into a real political discussion
where
people would disagree with him, and he clearly does not even have
the
intellect to join a forum where the majority would agree with him.
He
may have a ham license, but he is probably a lid and an appliance
operator who does not know which end of the soldering iron is hot.

I see our off topic topic is about to get even further
off topic.

--Mike L.

Hmm. Yeah. I'd forgotten that, when our international friends need
reassurance or general insight into America's political climate, the
first and most natural place for them they look is rec.radio.shortwave.
I keep lapsing back into the old belief that this is a hobbyist
newsgroup, when of course its true purpose is to assuage the fears of
our international friends, who are thoroughly dependent upon
rec.radio.shortwave as their primary source of news and information.

In fact, given the vast geopolitical importance of rec.radio.shortwave,
I wonder why you don't hear more about it in the 'mainstream' media, or
why so few posts turn up here from major political figures. Weird.

Our " International Freinds" , fully realizing that , by electing
George Bush to office,
the American people have deprived a villiage somewhere of it's Idiot,
and
- Watching our country bungle the chance to capture Osama Bin Laden at
Tora Bora
and
watching our country Destroy our international good will after 9/11
with a vanity war in Iraq
and..
Seeing our countrys actions become a recruiting tool for Al Quaeda..

- really do Not need a reminder that we , as a country, are on the
wrong track, and will remain there for at least three more years.

Appologies to our freinds overseas..

no, we are not all Savage Neocon Beasts