Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet Date: 27 Jul 2024 16:55:49 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 23 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de d2KuspTGBJh+e/SB+1ZxAgKIOBKFEYuRJMAFf1fFjgNhMt Cancel-Lock: sha1:ctSAyDu2LYs+zuCIKnccuO879hs= sha256:q2ROxhFQ3Kzz5yRnt+DNN91Tn19pEjEHWSy9t1+2yJw= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3134 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. >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.