On 3/28/2010 2:31 PM, wrote:
On Mar 28, 11:32 am, "J. wrote:

Yes, you can start a newsgroup. Anybody can start one in the alt
heirarchy.

Or:

http://groups.google.com/groups/create?hl=en&lnk=gcphp

a few seconds and *poof* you got it.

Good luck getting USENET providers to carry it, and good
luck getting people to use it. Unless they are carefully targetted,
splinter groups generally get no traffic to speak of.

Echoing Puck's point, he was thinking that some here may want to bandy
about their beliefs with each other, and were only lacking a venue.
Who would care then, if their was a larger audience for their views if
they were genuinely, and only interested in discourse amongst
themselves? No one would care about post counts, traffic,
advertising, click ads or anything else. They could hammer on each
other to their hearts delight. And it wouldn't cost them anything,
and they could keep it amongst themselves.

There are many venues for "bandying about beliefs". Having one more is
not going to make the discussion move from here to there.

*My* point was there would be no larger stage for their considered
opinions, the showboating of their perceived smack downs, and one
oneupmanship they try to practice.

What makes you think that anybody participating in such a discussion
cares about the size of the audience?

My point is that for these guys it is better to be a small fish in a
mud puddle than to be big fish in the ocean.

They don't care about the size of fish they are or the size of the
puddle, only that someone posted a statement to which they take exception.

Political threads occur in every non-moderated newsgroup on USENET.
There's nothing that can be done about it lawfully except liberal use of
the killfile. Making another empty newsgroup will not cause the
discussion to move there.