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The internet, was Argentina
On 4/3/13 9:51 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote: These days usenet is really the only wild west left. The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for better or worse. ==== It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P sharing seems to be the wave of the future. As a conversational medium, usenet is dead, dead, dead. Perfect example: rec.boats.cruising. Other than Skip's continuing saga of the rebuilding of his sailboat, the only other commentaries in there come from a bunch of anonymous posters whining about another poster, and a guy selling books or something like it. I'm still in rec.boats because I actually want to be here on the day it finally dies. For "conversation" and exchanging of information, moderated groups are the way to go. Hell, even Facebook is better than usenet. And with moderated groups and Facebook, you can include photos, maps, directions, whatever, along with your posts. I go up to Connecticut shoreline towns twice a year now to attend gatherings, parties, et cetera, with old classmates and other friends from the area, and these social events are a result of our finding each other on Facebook. |
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