On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing > lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various > flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook, > and TokTik, and more of the same. It takes more mental effort and > discipline to participate meaningfully in the former, but much less > in the latter. It's a much lower barrier of entry; hence this latest > episode with Gnome.
I miss using usenet, it was much better than mailing lists. You could post without exposing your email address. The usenet clients had excellent threading, filtering, and a decent editor for posting and replying. Of course spammers were a problem, but a decent usenet host could have taken care of that. And for small projects, you had a free forum service. One (or more) of the news servers hosted it, you didn't. All you had to do was convince a big service to create a news group for you, if one didn't already exist, and it'd propagate through to others. Of course, you could also run your news server, if you really wanted to. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13 18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
