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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.
>
> 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).
> 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.   :-)
>

Still somewhat alive in the former Soviet union, even Ukraine Fido.

Perhaps something on github?


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