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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:41:22 -0700
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On 7/28/24 6:00 PM, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Yes.  ``Expert'' has been redefined.
>=20
>>>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 filte=
r them
>>   out of your feed. And if it drives you nuts to see how others respon=
d
>>   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=E2=80=99s not like there=E2=80=99s a central authority doing =
that for you.
>=20
> It's true that NNTP is able to handle the job, but most people are not
> willing to be experts at using NNTP clients.

Most people are not able to be experts at anything.

--=20
Cheers, Bev
    "I love to go down to the schoolyard  and watch all the
     little children jump up and down and run around yelling and
     screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks."   --Emo