Usenet is also pretty much *DEAD*. The discussion groups have all been
long ago over-run by TROLLS. There's really no chance of discussing
anything there.
I was just goofing when I suggested it. 🙃
Facebook is fine, but I don't have an account, so I wouldn't see a PDML
group there. Hopefully the mail list will continue to suffice.
On 1/10/2023 10:02 PM, Comcast wrote:
I don’t mean to disparage Usenet. Just pointing out that it’s old and now
somewhat obscure. Email, by the way has benefited from its universality and
consequently, the continuous refinement of email apps.
Paul
On Jan 10, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:

On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:07 PM, Comcast <[email protected]> wrote:
Usenet is a relatively ancient system for posting information, messages and the
like. It was originally phone based relying on dial up modems. It’s now
internet based. It’s very basic and straightforward. Although you need an
access app, you don’t have to subscribe to a service like Facebook. It’s rather
inelegant but old timers embrace it as a computer geek badge of honor.
I resemble that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
I looked up RFC 850, and it dates to 1983, so the transition from UUCP to the
internet is about 40 years old, so it’s not like it’s recent. One could also
say a lot of the same things about email (and yes red4est used to get its email
via dial up uucp and bang path) but it’s not like people tend to disparage
email as something that people used to do over their phones.
Hmm, the more things change…
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