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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
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Subject: Re: Young people peering
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:06:29 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <uvovq7$1nbp8$3@dont-email.me>, Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/17/2024 5:39 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>> In article <uvodbh$1jboj$1@dont-email.me>, Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2024 1:03 PM, Retro Guy wrote:
>>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <uvmi06$13lru$1@dont-email.me>, Kyonshi
>>>>> <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/14/2024 2:11 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>>> What happened to the young people who wanted to set up a Usenet node?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> define young.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am working on getting one running, although most likely focused on
>>>>>> a few specific groups. but considering I reinstalled the OS at least
>>>>>> three times since I decided to do that it might still take a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> maybe next week or so
>>>>
>>>>> There was a high school studnet wanting to set up an NNTP node withing
>>>>> the last 3 months!
>>>>
>>>> I remember. They just kind of disappeared.
>>>> The school IT dept probably decided to block Usenet for the safety of
>>>> "the kids".
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or they realised that it was more work than they thought for not enough
>>> shiny, and they had to rework their plans.
>>> It's not necessarily that people just give up because stuff is hard,
>>> there is limited time in the day and people have other stuff to do.
>> 
>> Actually the more work you do, the more you get familiar!
>> 
>> Getting high schools to a Usenet project should be
>> the advocacy of everyone here!
>
>I'm not saying it's not worth it, I'm just saying they might have to 
>restructure their plans because school projects have a certain amount of 
>time allocated to them, and once it's getting close to the completion 
>date it's just not possible to do everything. Especially if it's 
>something as complicated as setting up a working nntp server if even the 
>terminal might not be the first thing people think about when using 
>computers.
>
>(I learned how to use computers on DOS, my son doesn't have a clue what 
>this black thing I am using for work is)

At this level , Internet should be defined as
a network of computers running various services.
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