Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...

Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:

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

Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> 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).