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Anyone out there? - only 15th posting this month
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JH wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:19:45 +0100, "SatNav" wrote: "Kegs" wrote in message ... "SatNav" writes: "MatSav" m a t t h e w D O T s a v a g e A T d s l D O T p i p e x D OT c o m wrote in message ... On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:43:42 +0100, JH wrote: Does anything ever happen in this group, or are you all down with Davy Jones? Discussion has migrated to url:http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk The above fake little dialogue is designed to divert gullible usenet users to a commercial page. Bing! Wrong, UKRGB is a free site, with free discussion boards, and free access to the river guides, which are contributed by the readership. Ads and selling stuff like t-shirts are about the only ways to pay for the, non-negligable, overheads of running a popular site like that, without directly charging the end-users. My point precisely, UKRGB depends on advertising revenue to keep going. You know what happens when your website depends financially on someone? Even if they don't overtly call the shots, you make sure you don't upset them. Freedom of speech goes out the window etc. etc. This by contrast is a free AND independent NG. I regret if people post here, announcing that 'discussion has migrated' to a commercially funded web site. The motivation is obvious - adverts fetch more the more hits your site gets. Given the popularity (growing it seems to me) of "paddling", it seems amazing that a newsgroup can be "killed" off by two individuals with a point to prove. Shame really, the moderators rule. (Again..) J. No, you misunderstand. The group is unmoderated, which was the cause of the problem. When it was hijacked, there was no way to stop it, other than leaving. The forum is moderated, hence hasn't been hijacked. -- Alan Adams http://www.nckc.org.uk/ |