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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>>ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>>The experts used to be here. Linux was announced in comp.os.minix.
> . . .
>>The ‘expert’ conversations are still happening, just not on Usenet.  You
>>can find them in mailing lists, blogs, issue trackers, papers, etc.
>
>   BTW: I shouldn't be calling Linus Torvalds and the others
>   I mentioned “experts.” That would be a serious downgrade for
>   them! These folks are top-tier innovators. But yeah, there
>   were definitely experts back in the Usenet days, and some
>   of them are still around in certain Newsgroups.

Yes.  ``Expert'' has been redefined.

>>A core problem with Usenet is that you can’t exclude people whose net
>>contribution to a discussion is negative.
>
>   Or maybe the real issue is the folks who think you can't just block
>   certain people out? Yeah, Usenet expects everyone to manage their
>   own filters. If someone’s bugging you, you can totally filter them
>   out of your feed. And if it drives you nuts to see how others respond
>   to them, just find a newsreader that lets you filter that too!
>   Heck, you can filter posts that have a specific word pattern in them!
>   But it’s not like there’s a central authority doing that for you.

It's true that NNTP is able to handle the job, but most people are not
willing to be experts at using NNTP clients.