Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Johanne Fairchild Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:00:20 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87bk2hc8rf.fsf@tudado.org> References: <20240724115828.5d9d85d9305fe8300a91db5d@g{oogle}mail.com> <875xst5w5j.fsf@tudado.org> <87v80rkcd6.fsf_-_@tudado.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b962567ccb937f650877970cd5834aa3"; logging-data="183680"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18n9IakFkAZQsaFYtpeIMrBUeO46ZiJfW4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:cJaaTRSdvPxoHrCAH71zWQf+tlI= sha1:tk+dSHcgjkMZiXyXa7pfBbaxZic= Bytes: 3026 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Richard Kettlewell 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.