On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:41:06PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Lionel Élie Mamane <lio...@mamane.lu> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:13:41AM +0100, marc wrote: >>> Lionel wrote:
>>>>>> I know that I'm old-fashioned in this respect, but I think for online >>>>>> discussions no better system than Usenet has been invented, but mailing >>>>>> lists are the next best options. >>>>> Full ACK. >>>> Have you lived the heydays of Fidonet? >>> I am going to assume that Lionel's comment was meant snarkily. >> No, it wasn't. As I remember things, Fidonet echomail & netmail was >> more "power user"-friendly than Usenet/NNTP. > Iʼm arfaid, you missed the key point while trying to compare Fidonet > with Usenet. > Fidonet was not meant as an alternative to Usenet (or e-mail), it > was designed as an amateur alternative to the whole Internet, where > nodes were meant to connect each other over phone lines. I didn't see it that way at the time. Fidonet was thriving at a time where commercial Internet access was not available, or in its very early infancy, for the general public. At least in Europe. It was a communication network, yes a hobby / amateur network, that grew and developed in the "amateur" world parallel to the development of Internet/Usenet/email in academia. Not as something developed or launched as an alternative to Internet/Usenet/email. But I see this as completely orthogonal to the user experience of actually using the user agent for group discussions, which is what I was referring to and discussing in my previous email. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
