Re: Young people peering

Van Camp <van@ca.mp> wrote:

On 2024-04-17 18:07:39 +0000, SugarBug said:
 

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:39:50 -0000 (UTC)
doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote:
 

Getting high schools to a Usenet project should be
the advocacy of everyone here!

 
Moderated NNTP newsgroups are well-suited to academic environments.
 
In certain academic and scientific circles much communication is still
done via email using clients that still have built-in NNTP capability.

 
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.
 
Not sure if access to global Usenet would be useful in businness
environment, but local NNTP server is a good idea, in my opinion. I was
never in a position to propose any changes, though.

  That - a company-local NetNews server - is exactly what we/I did,
already in the very early 80s (till at least 2003). We carried
company-internal newsgroups, some company-related Usenet newsgroups - as
an alternative (informal) customer support channel - and some other
Usenet groups (by an automatic on-demand feed mechanism (storage was
still small/expensive at the time)).

  But like in the non-company world, NetNews/Usenet was somewhat of a
niche and most others (ab)used e-mail where NetNews/Usenet would have
been a much better fit. In our company, it was mostly used by techies,
not by marketing/sales, admin, etc..

  Bottom line: You/I/'we' are preaching to the converted. :-( c.q. :-)

Quick google search shows that the same thing was proposed many times
in the past, for example, a book Practical Internet Groupware by Jon
Udell starts with a chapter called "Lotus Notes, Web Bulletin Boards,
and NNTP Newsgroups":
 
<https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-internet-groupware/1565925378/ch01s07.html>

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