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On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:40:41 CST
Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> wrote:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> >> Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to
> >> revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another
> >> newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?
> > 
> > I personally would appreciate a forum for talking about Usenet software
> > where peering decisions, spam, and network abuse are rejected by
> > moderation so that the discussion was only about the technical issues of
> > software implementation.
> 
> OK, I stand corrected, but in my defense I now realize that this is a 
> special case.  This newsgroup will/would be used by the very few people 
> who are specifically interested in Usenet for Usenet's sake.  In the 
> general case, trying to revive a moderated newsgroup that has been dead 
> for years is just silly.

In that case then trying to revive Usenet at all is just silly.

Your logic is killing the network effect in the cradle.