Re: Young people peering

Kyonshi wrote:

On 4/17/2024 1:03 PM, Retro Guy wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
 

In article <uvmi06$13lru$1@dont-email.me>, Kyonshi  <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/14/2024 2:11 PM, The Doctor wrote:

What happened to the young people who wanted to set up a Usenet node?

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define young.
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I am working on getting one running, although most likely focused on a few specific groups. but considering I reinstalled the OS at least three times since I decided to do that it might still take a while.
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maybe next week or so

 

There was a high school studnet wanting to set up an NNTP node withing the last 3 months!

 I remember. They just kind of disappeared.
The school IT dept probably decided to block Usenet for the safety of "the kids".
 

Or they realised that it was more work than they thought for not enough shiny, and they had to rework their plans.
It's not necessarily that people just give up because stuff is hard, there is limited time in the day and people have other stuff to do.

Very true. I just mention school IT because my wife works in education and constantly has battles with IT blocking pretty much everything, which drives her nuts :)
Drives me nuts too because she can't get to a lot of sites using her laptop at home, and asks me what's wrong with "the internet". I have to tell her it's the spyware/blocking software installed by her district on the laptop.
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Retro Guy