Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 06:42

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On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 10:46:44 AM UTC-6, Questor wrote:

> In the 1980s, Usenet was *explicitly* designed and operated such that posts were
> ephemeral.  Newsfeed retention times were measured in days, not years or even
> months.  While it wasn't impossible to imagine otherwise, at the time it would
> have been an exercise in pure fantasy to do so.

Posts were ephemeral *within the Usenet network itself*. They weren't encrypted, 
so that they could only be displayed on machines that would not transmit their 
plaintext externally, which were kept in guarded rooms so that no one could 
photograph the messages on computer screens.

Thus, to say that it takes 20-20 hindsight to anticipate the possibility of a 
USENET message being saved to embarrass one later is, I believe, to be 
stretching it.

John Savard

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