New forum needs moderators

Try Guy Macon.

John

Did you mean this site

Sorry, group joke.

And anyhow, we already have an electronics forum.

John

And anyhow, we already have a Somewhat Eclectic electronics forum. :-)

where's Woogate, when you need him......need some English humor here

bloody whippersnappers, trying to invent more stuff that was all ready there

martin

So I guess it's just a bad idea to post this kind of things here lol

Nah, not bad, just take the flak

This Empire of Cyberspace is a close knit bunch of highly intelligent idiots, and Phil from Oz.

But really, what can you offer that SED can't? We are really different worlds

BTW nice graphics :)

martin

Highly intelligent idiots... you must have some knowledge about this

OK. you've seen how SED works, no silly html windows, just text

Quite effective, apart from ASCII art and Google (GooOS?)

martin

You seem to hate Google Martin, may I ask why? lol

Ah,I'm just a miserable old git... but loads of people **really** hate the way Google hijacked the Usenet via dejanews, and called it Google Groups

martin

And what advice can you give me about the forum I am willing to run?

P*rn, much more money, not as much fun though

martin

So use the search engine, which is great, and Earth, which is fabulous, and ignore their dreadful groups interface.

Their news thing (news, not newsgroup) is pretty good. For the cost of a cookie, you can have a custom news page that includes, say, science and semiconductor sections.

Their maps are good, too.

John

First, understand that YOU aren't posting to Google Groups. You are posting to USENET. Google Groups is one interface for doung it.

The main reason so many folks hate Google Groups is because many people who post from there are ignorant. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:SXIajvWUVHAJ:groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py=answer=12348+Summarize-what-*-*-*-*-*+remove-*-*-*-irrelevant+show-options+zz-zz+click-Reply+BOTTOM+*-*-reply-appears-*-*-*-before-the-original-*-*

--- _Willing_ to run?

It sounds like you want it to seem like you're doing the world a favor by running the forum.

My advice would be to get over yourself.

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Probably because he's sane. Google encourages newbies to post stuff with no context, and to top-post, both of which are wrong.

USENET is somewhat like a BBS, but when using a real newsreader, accessing a real newsserver, it's a PITA to search through message headers to find out what you googlegroupies are talking about.

Good Luck! Rich

Why do i feel that those same people (depending on the newsreader chosen) would still top-post or post without context? I see lots of folks who can't emulate the paradigm they observe

--the majority of which DON'T post from Google. Stupid is stupid.

Google DID break the blockquoting thing which they once had implemented properly.

Instead of wasting screen space on their latest attempt to break things while adding the stupid *Rating* graphics, they should have included (on every page) a link to this: "The Do's and Don'ts of Posting on Google Groups"