Re: Netnews: The Origin Story

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Sn!pe wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Sn!pe wrote:
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Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> wrote:
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
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Yes, it is in the form of a pdf, but be that as it may, it makes for an
interesting view into the start of Usenet:
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<https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf>
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Thank you for posting!
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Writing as someone addicted to Usenet for 30 years it's good to see the
whole story, much of which was new to me; I've saved it, thanks again.
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# Usenet was my first love
# And it will be my last...
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What has made you stick with it through all these years? How come you have
not been swept up by the winds of facebook and other social media?
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around It."
<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/>
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If I fall out with a NSP admin, I can regain access by using a different
NSP.  Fuckerbergs* have the power of individual censorship.
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Also, Fuckerbergs drive a coach and horses through user privacy
to facilitate commercial gain.  I fart in their general direction.
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* Fuckerberg:  generic term for controllers of proprietary networks.

This is a good point! But you are not worried about the essentially unencrypted nature of usenet?