An Armstrong and Getty podcast had a guy on discussing healthcare issues. They bill him as Craig the Healthcare Guru. This is what he had to say.
Snipped a bunch.
The discussions here seem to be a lot like people just sitting around in a bar or coffee shop. They're just normal conversation. They wander around when one thought sparks another. Solutions to problems or inventions happen because of that sometimes. This group would be almost dead if it wasn't for the OT stuff. I have maybe six or seven bookmarked. Three of those including this one have posts regularly. British bikers have one that stays on topic for the most part. They seem to know each other in the real world. The man in my mirror is always right about everything. It's nice to hear others' opinions though.
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 18:31:42 -0700 (PDT), Dean Hoffman posted for all of us to digest...
I disagree. There are plenty of other groups to discuss politics, thoughts and ideas. This group was set up for it's name; home repair. The charters for this and similar groups specifically banned politics and spamming. I suggest us.politics for political discussions. The Brits are the ones that brought politics into this and made a shambles of this group. Ideas & thoughts on home repair are encouraged but outside the group charter are not. I have tried to find the charter but was unsuccessful. No servers have this group for more than
20 years. The charter is the first posting to a group.
That was a different time and Usenet was a different place. There are still a few clean groups but not many. These still tend to be a group of less than 50 people and some groups are more like 6 or 7 regulars with an occasional visitor. It would be interesting if Golfer Man would expand the "posters" list to 40 or 50 and see how many actual people post here in a given month, bearing in mind some have multiple nyms. My bet is you don't get more than 40 before you are in single digits if you get that far.
On Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:44:37 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote:
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If you look at how many of them are the same guy you prove my point. Most of the one and 2 hit wonders are either spammers or one of our regular trolls with a joke post.
I agree with your point. Once you look past about the first 20 or 30 entries, it starts to look pretty weak. I pulled that list from September so that I could get a full month, but it looks pretty typical.
I also can't help pointing out that the #1 poster seems to have a lot of time on his hands, but I suppose that's mostly harmless.
Every time I pose anything two or three of you have something to say about it that I respond to. I suppose it is my problem. I guess I shouldn't feed the trolls.
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