Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today... Date: 2 Sep 2024 12:12:07 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 18 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <87seupo9wp.fsf@tudado.org> <87le0gkvzb.fsf@tudado.org> <0c0f0d05-5da3-919a-21ac-3d3f1a9ad834@example.net> <87frqld6e9.fsf@tudado.org> <87v7ze3jz2.fsf@tudado.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de cFSMCnt/5TnK+y/EjZcoJghAvxM3CmfgEmPdcZ0KdT8ZuY Cancel-Lock: sha1:nkyEPC58jHStHQfjRqmwYo5GwO4= sha256:bzXPPEXOQY1QQcktmG01SK2hkN2+UOgIkCyWFz+hRuM= 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: 2793 Johanne Fairchild wrote or quoted: >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: >>Johanne Fairchild wrote or quoted: >>>In the 00s (first decade), we had lots of very technical conversations. >>>I remember comp.lang.c. Wow. It was full of very knowledgeable C >>>programmers. You can hardly see that now. >>Ben Bacarisse and James Kuyper are knowledgeable as all get-out. >They were both there at the time. Are they hanging out at comp.lang.c >now? I unsubscribed myself. Can't remember why. Very long >conversations about uninteresting things? Can't remember. I still have subscribed comp.lang.c, but by now I have added every regular to my filter, so I only possibly see occasional non-regulars. "Uninteresting things" sometimes might matter in C programming (depending on what exactly those uninteresting things are).