Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

John Levine wrote:
> > >                              I thought it should have died when pr0n and
> > > w4rez took it over (in the late 90's)..
> Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy.  I still moderate
> comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.
>
> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.

And NNTP is still one of the most brilliant protocols ever written.  
Replicated information, no central control, ad hoc group creation.  It's 
really a shame that the Netscape Collaboration Server was never open 
sourced (easy newsgroup management, a layer of user management) - 
facebook or googlegroups without the centralized control.

Miles Fidelman


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