Re: Young people peering

On 5/14/24 10:49, Van Camp wrote:

When I was working at different companies, I always wondered why all of them use mailing lists instead of local newsgroups.

Ignorance and / or requirements.
Most people don't know about news groups.  Most of those that do know about news groups equate it with Usenet.  I hope that we can all agree that general unfiltered Usenet is not a good thing for businesses.
Most businesses had (access to) an email server.  Having (access to) that email server was a business need as in it provided tangible benefits to the organization.  Few of those businesses also had (access to) a private news group server.
People tend to make the tools that they have work.  Adding a little inefficiency to the solution at hand, email, was more efficient for them than acquiring (access to) another server / service.

Local newsgroups just make much more sense, and make many things easier.

I agree.

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.

Agreed on the first two accounts.  About 20 years ago I mentioned Usenet to my counterpart, the Windows admin, and he was intrigued.  He added NNTP support to the Exchange server and we dabbled with it.  I think that he and I were starting to embrace it, but the other two business partners / owners were confused with how it differed from email and why it was better than email.  Not long afterwards, discussions gravitated back towards email again.
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Grant. . . .