Re: Why can't we just "reset" Usenet?

On 2/28/25 6:46 PM, Steve Bonine wrote:

Retro Guy wrote:
 

Also, I don't know why someone is posting short quotes, not opinion on the
quote, and links to Reddit. I, and I'm guessing some others, are not going
to visit Reddit to read the info.

 This is an example of the opinion that re-posts of material from other sources (mailing lists, newsletters, social media) will revive a newsgroup.  If your newsgroup is dying, you can revive it by posting material from other sources.  You have to admit that the article that you are disparaging has resulted in a flurry of activity in the target newsgroups.
 I am not personally a fan of this technique.  My impression is that you end up with low-quality traffic that does not result in any followups in the newsgroup, [...]

The main problem with this particular case of re-posted material is the low quality of the material to begin with. It was someone's uninformed opinion and musing about Usenet. It was from a person who was unfamiliar with the operation of Usenet, as particularly evidenced by the phrase "you can't just host your own server."
I question what value Paul Schleck saw in reposting this uninformed or ignorant material to the newsgroups. Was it to inform the readers here? Was it to entertain us? Or was it for his own entertainment, to read our replies for the past several days?