Re: Emigration from Usenet

On 7/27/24 1:01 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> 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!

 My point is that the “manage your own filters” model is a good candidate
for why almost everybody (expert or not) left Usenet.

That's the GOOD part about usenet.  You can look at the list of threads and authors and easily decide what you want to read.  When you're done, mark the rest 'read'.  Simple.  After a few decades you actually know how to do this stuff.
I've only killfiled two people, and I think one of them is actually dead now.
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Cheers, Bev
    All bleeding eventually stops.