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Article #624943Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:59
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:59
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On 2018-07-27, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > 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. On my machine I have a bunch of archived Usenet posts going back as far as 1989. I suppose they could potentially be used to embarrass someone later. Me, no doubt. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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X-Received: by 2002:a1c:7c19:: with SMTP id x25-v6mr777399wmc.20.1532714429507; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:a1c:4d05:: with SMTP id o5-v6ls986344wmh.12.gmail; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a1c:ed0f:: with SMTP id l15-v6mr699891wmh.24.1532714428564; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!s23-v6ni10842wmc.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1958 Crisis in education Date: 27 Jul 2018 17:59:53 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <pjfmip04rc@news3.newsguy.com> References: <s7edkdtoficgrfqa55g6lpi7m94nd3ns82@4ax.com> <f9e77c58-16e1-4339-ac4c-c45bc403c020@googlegroups.com> <j2lqkdljnuv4ferj5sa3ugqj951mikgr3u@4ax.com> <1a83685b-35cd-4ca9-a81d-a215e860bb1b@googlegroups.com> <slrnpkr5i5.1l4.mausg@dmaus.org> <20180717095750.db03d16472288e095782e917@eircom.net> <fr5trrFg3paU1@mid.individual.net> <XnsA922761147C19admin127001@85.214.115.223> <fr5vf7Fg3paU2@mid.individual.net> <fr61loFeltqU3@mid.individual.net> <fr627kFg3paU5@mid.individual.net> <fr65r4FeltqU5@mid.individual.net> <9e6ade0d-c70e-4666-aa6a-2a6ec5f155c7@googlegroups.com> <20180720.1356.1025281snz@twoplaces.co.uk> <5b537e2d.11727042@news.dslextreme.com> <frj0g7F94naU1@mid.individual.net> <5b575cf8.6664082@news.dslextreme.com> <frp8pbFmh47U1@mid.individual.net> <5b58b361.4746635@news.dslextreme.com> <frrsbtFa5cjU1@mid.individual.net> <5b59fae7.3399327@news.dslextreme.com> <602bf8e8-b91d-484d-a8bb-e4c81bd42cb6@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p8dffca52b2b65aac8c148f0f3f68e1740e9e91b4c63c910b.newsdawg.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Received-Bytes: 2848 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3567903866 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit