On 3/22/13 12:56 PM, Jim G. wrote: > Ant sent the following on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:40:14 -0700: >> On 3/19/2013 12:40 PM PT, Jim G. typed: >> >>>>> Yep. And what time is devoted to things will probably be on the email >>>>> side of things, as most people under 35 have probably never even heard >>>>> of USENET. Once in a while, I take a look at the web boards on a place >>>>> like Reddit and laugh that "kids today" think that that's a better way >>>>> to communicate and exchange ideas online. Oh, well... >>>> >>>> Please forgive my ignorance but what's Reddit?? ;-) >>> >>> The new(er) Digg. It's basically a big news-gathering and -sharing >>> playground for 20-something-year-old guys and other guys who wish that >>> they were still 20-something. >> >> I used to use Digg until they went downhill withi its v4 and revamped >> the whole thing. I switched to Reddit like most Diggers. I still use >> newsgroups/usenet, /., IRC, text based programs, SSH2, etc. :) > > USENET and the old Compuserve with its venerable forums pretty much > guaranteed that I would never be happy with web-based interactions. To > me, this sort of thing requires an offline reader and some really good > filters, neither of which is available on most web forums. >
Another feature of NNTP (which includes USENET and other newsgroups) missing in Web-based forums is the fact that non-propriety newsgroups are not tied to a particular host. A list that was updated less than a year ago has over 70 stand-alone NSPs (news service providers), most of which cover the Big8 hierarchies (comp.*, news.*, sci.*, humanities.*, rec.*, soc.*, talk.*, and misc.*). Some NSPs are even free. If I post a message to a newsgroup hosted at reader.albasani.net, someone else can read it and reply to it at news.eternal-september.org. And a third person can also read and reply at news.giganews.com. We do not all have to be logged in to the same host. When I cite "non-propriety newsgroups", I mean newsgroups generally not controlled by some enterprise. Mozilla's news.mozilla.org hosts proprietary newsgroups. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at <http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html> to see. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
