On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 5:35 AM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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. > > I completely agree, I have found usenet with a good interface (knode) to be far a more efficient way to keep up with a large body of topics. Email is inefficient in its use of space and bandwidth, since it replicates data needlessly. I haven't seen an online forum that works as well as usenet.
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