On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 01:39:33AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...]
> That doesn't make sense. Usenet and NNTP is a different protocol than > mailing lists and various email protocols. Why would you expect > protocols to cross pollinate? Gateways. They live between protocols. In the concrete case, mail to news gateways (for example gmane [1]). Here's Shoshana Zuboff, quoting Hannah Arendt on accumulation: "Marx's 'original sin of simple robbery,' she writes, "had eventually to be repeated lest the motor of capital accumulation suddenly die down" The idea of silos came up with capitalism trying to rob society for its own profit (early examples are AOL, the current ones should be so well-known that they don't need mention, I think). Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane [2] Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, chapter 4 "The Moat Around the Castle". Marx's "original sin" are the enclosures [3], Hannah Arendt wrote this in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and attributes the idea to Rosa Luxemburg. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosures -- t
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