Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
You already know (or still remember) Usenet?
Absolutely. I wrote a number of programs to process news articles and
add-ons for slrn, a newsreader. A gNewSense GNU/Linux netnews group
would be fine if it could be made to integrate well with the extant
mailing list (bidirectional posting). This isn't easy to do well, but
it can be done and I've seen it done before.
However, Usenet poses a practical problem: publicly-available news
servers are scarce and ISPs no longer commonly host news services
themselves or outsource the job. It will be increasingly harder to
connect to Usenet.
Compare that to email which is ubiquitous and inexpensive.
For me it's a miracle that those bloated
> web forums replaced this brilliant system.
I think the graphics, sounds, and animations were the chief reason.
People interested in information rather than useless glitzy displays
will probably prefer Usenet and mailing lists.
> With the feeds (RSS and Atom) they turned some what back.
Yes, somewhat. I am not a fan of polling (although many newsreaders
will allow users to do this), and feeds still lack some of the features
I mentioned earlier, but feeds are better than arbitrary websites with
non-uniform means of accessing valued information.
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