[SpamCop-Mail] Re: This newsgroup is going away

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Miss Betsy wrote:

> I don't know JT very well and most of the exchanges I have had with
> him in the ng were not exactly friendly, but in this case, IMHO, he
> should not be griped at.  

There are a lot of reasons people should gripe at JT. Some of us have 
been around since the early days of the old SpamCop web based message 
board before the newsgroups, so we remember how much worse that was than 
newsgroups. JT has chosen to completely ignore the concerns of those of 
us who prefer a newsgroup format, and he has chosen to ignore those of 
us who have supported SpamCop longer than a lot of people. Whenever he 
needs to make an announcement, he has suddenly chosen not to make the 
same announcement on the NG side so that only those who follow the web 
forum are able to come back here and post the news that JT choses to 
withold from the NGs. The posting rules have also been changed so that 
it is now apparently open season on html and attachment posting, NOT cool!

> The web forum for "help" issues and "mail"
> issues is worth a try.  He listened to what people in the ng had to
> say and is discussing different ways to improve the web forum on the
> web forum.  .help is still here.  So what is the problem?

The problem is that JT has decided to ignore the needs and preferences 
of a large group of long time SpamCop users. If he really listened to 
what people wanted, he wouldn't have abandonned any conversation 
attempts in the newsgroup, and he would have figured out a workable 
solution like several people suggested where the newsgroup and web forum 
could have been mirrored.