On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, wrote:

Here is a link to a new Electronics Repair and Design group that I have
started, need new members and fresh ideas.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/528254330634866/

Which is it, repair or design?

20 years ago, this hierarchy consisted of sci.electronics and
sci.electronics.repair It was some time in 1995 that Mark Zenier
put in the effort to divide up sci.electronics into the multiple
newsgroups we see today, design being one of them. But for some
reason (and I wasn't around before late 1994), someone had seen fit
to make .repair a separate newsgroup, even before any other subgroups
were created.

And anyone who announces a facebook group here is a fool. Anyone left in
a newsgroup is not going to be moving to facebook, we've made our choice
and lived with the lesser traffic each year.

It was so much better in the old days, when someone had to prove a need
for yet another group. It took more effort to create, but there was
reasonable certainty that it would be used if it was created. Now, any
Joe Blow can create a facebook page or a yahoo group, but that doesn't
mean it will have value. That only comes if anyone uses it, and we
aren't the ones who are going to homestead a facebook page.

YOu don't even mention a faq, which puts this new 'creation" way down.
When Sam wrote those faqs, Radio Electronics magazine liked them so much
that they made him the repair columnist for the magazine.

All you have is a facebook page, something any fool can create. It takes
a lot more to actually make it valuable.

Michael