Re: Young people peering

Van Camp <van@ca.mp> writes:

When I was working at different companies, I always wondered why all of
them use mailing lists instead of local newsgroups. Local newsgroups
just make much more sense, and make many things easier.

When I worked at Stanford, I set up fairly extensive local newsgroups to
capture all sorts of reports and user requests that started out as email.
I really liked that system, and some of my co-workers did as well, but I
think it mostly or entirely went away after I left.

Part of the problem these days is that news clients are a lot rarer than
mail clients and don't work in all the ways that people expect mail to
work (on the phone, in particular).  When I was at an email-heavy job (I'm
thankfully not any more), I will say that I found a good mobile email
client to be exceptionally good at its job, good enough that I never
bothered to set up Gnus for work email (which is what I usually use to let
me treat email as if it's Usenet).  Being able to triage email on the
train is incredibly useful and I'm dubious there's a mobile news client
with the same feature set (although I admit I have not done a ton of
research).

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