On 27 Jun 2001 06:28:49 -0700, Jason Bassford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Newsgroups are derived from
>old style bulletin boards and are meant as forums for public
>discussion.
There were bulletin-boards before Usenet?
>It's actually considered "rude" by more people, not less,
>to reply privately via email than via another public post.
My rebuttal to this would be http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1
Once upon a time, whenever you wanted to post to Usenet you'd a message
like this:
"This program posts to thousands of machines throughout the entire
civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds, if not
thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you
are doing."
I kinda miss that message.
> (If everybody knew the answers to posts, there wouldn't be any
>posts and the Newsgroups would die out.)
This post must go down in history as the first ever to predict the death
of Usenet through _under_-use.
Charles Miller
