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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:48:52 -0700
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On 7/27/24 1:01 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 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 =E2=80=98expert=E2=80=99 conversations are still happening, just n=
ot 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 =E2=80=9Cexperts.=E2=80=9D That would be a serious downg=
rade 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.
>>
>>>A core problem with Usenet is that you can=E2=80=99t exclude people wh=
ose 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=E2=80=99s 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!
>=20
> My point is that the =E2=80=9Cmanage your own filters=E2=80=9D model is=
 a good candidate
> for why almost everybody (expert or not) left Usenet.

That's the GOOD part about usenet.  You can look at the list of threads=20
and authors and easily decide what you want to read.  When you're done,=20
mark the rest 'read'.  Simple.  After a few decades you actually know=20
how to do this stuff.

I've only killfiled two people, and I think one of them is actually dead =

now.


--=20
Cheers, Bev
    All bleeding eventually stops.