Werner Koch wrote: > > because the new kids on the block seem to find NNTP archaic and > > weird > > The reason why almost all real work moved from Usenet to MLs is due to > the worse signal/noise ratio on the Usenet about 10 to 15 years ago.
Ah, yes. That's probably the most important reason; what I pointed out is secondary. > Fortunately we have web fori (and blog comments) today so that MLs > keep on working well. Yeah, it's nice that these cloacae gather almost all of the noise. Still, there are mailing lists/newsgroups (like gnu.misc.discuss) that are nearly impossible to follow without resorting to plonk... _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
