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On 2018-03-15, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 15 Mar 2018 17:36:35 GMT
> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>
>> It's a paradox which puzzles me: invent a way for strangers to
>> communicate in groups, and the groups will eventually be taken over by
>> people whose personality disorders, in various ways, make them
>> /unable/ to communicate.

Sounds like politics in a nutshell.

> The loonies are easy to ignore or filter away, but they probably
> discourage potential new users (who mostly arrive on Usenet from
> the various web-based front-ends) from sticking around.  I wonder if a
> decent web portal could revive the medium - give it a twitter-ish
> format or whatever is the current social media craze, while allowing
> the user to manage filtering effectively (or perhaps allow an
> administrator to manage the filtering for them).

What I like about Usenet is that it doesn't belong to anyone.
Social media sites like Facebook, on the other hand, are monopolies.
What really irks me are those web sites that make you log in via
Facebook before you can leave comments.

> It's probably a lost cause, people have been trumpeting the death of
> Usenet for years although I think it will yet linger longer.
> Even if the global network withers we can still run private servers,
> like in the old BBS days.   :-)

Fidonet will rise again!  :-)

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