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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:03:17 -0300
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>>Let's translate that to ``the experts are not here''.  The experts who
>>are in social networks seem to be a minority, so I conjecture that most
>>experts are off the radar, perhaps waiting for something better.
>
>   The experts used to be here.

Just in case we're not on the same page, that's precisely what I was
saying too.

>   Linux was announced in comp.os.minix.  Tim Berners Lee published a
>   summary of the World Wide Web project to the alt.hypertext
>   newsgroup. Marc Andreessen announced Netscape in
>   comp.infosystems.www.users. The launch of AltaVista was announced in
>   biz.digital.announce. "Uncle Bob" wrote in comp.objects. Greg Egan
>   asked about the science for his SF novels in sci.physics.research.
>   Dennis Ritchie wrote in comp.lang.c. They just disappeared.

Thanks for the examples.  Indeed, if there's something certain about
experts is that they like to exchange ideas.  So, if they're not here
doing what they like do, they must be somewhere else doing it or waiting
for the weather to change and experts don't wait around much.