On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:24:57 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:52:27 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

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|It's about time to bury rec.boats.

You may have a lot of help, in this.....

Taken from another NG:

I got contacted by Tim Skirvin, who, as some of you might know, is the
current chairman of the Big 8 UseNet Board. It seems that UseNet as a
free communication medium is a thorn in the side of too many
dictatorial regimes and even the RIAA who increasingly have been
targeting the Big 8 board members with judiciary procedures, with
rather large attorney fees and loss of time being incurred by the
board members as a result. Therefore they are forced to abandon the
principle of non-moderated newsgroups and as a first step are now
contacting all 1200+ high traffic newsgroups by asking them to approve
a RFC to make their ng moderated.

In other words : they're telling us that unless we go moderated,
they're closing us down. And to pick a moderator who runs the risk of
getting sued by China et al.

More info : http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/moderated-ng-faq/ and
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/mod-archives/

Any ideas folks ? or any volunteers for that moderator job ?

Keep sniping, guys...... the writing is on the wall....

It's not going to happen.

Ever.