[151784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Mar 30 18:06:49 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:06:05 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120330215549.68551.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Levine wrote:
>>> I thought it should have died when pr0n and
>>> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's)..
> Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy. I still moderate
> comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.
>
> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.
>
And NNTP is still one of the most brilliant protocols ever written.
Replicated information, no central control, ad hoc group creation. It's
really a shame that the Netscape Collaboration Server was never open
sourced (easy newsgroup management, a layer of user management) -
facebook or googlegroups without the centralized control.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
