-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:32:02 -0800 Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kind of sad what's happened to Usenet. The feed comp.lang.c++ was a > big part of my life in the 1980s and early 90s. Now it's a cesspool > of spam. To be fair, spam was part and parcel of USENET from early days. It has become worse during the intervening 30 years, but this is a quantitative difference, not a qualitative one. Newsreader software evolved to cope by blacklisting spammers. LET IT NOT be said that the death of USENET is attributable to spam. For one thing, USENET is not dead in spite of what Google wants you to think: > Much of the content being disseminated via Usenet today is binary > (non-text) file sharing, which Google Groups does not support, as > well as spam. I find it ironic that Google's GMail is the largest source of USENET spam by far — both by piece count and by bandwidth. LET IT NOT be said that the death of USENET is attributable to graphical newsreaders, either. > Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based Usenet > groups has declined significantly because users have moved to more > modern technologies and formats such as social media and web-based > forums. The whole point of continuing using USENET is to avoid the tracking and hucksterism rampant on Szociál Media. Google acquired the Deja News USENET archive in 2001 and promptly set about making comprehensive searches of historical USENET traffic inoperable. Search of Google Groups remains problematic to this day. + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet In that year (2001), Google debuted Groups as a direct competitor for USENET even though its Web interface has always been inferior to the various newsreaders which existed then and which have continued to improve. The story here is that, in spite of Google's best efforts to crush it, USENET survived! Decoupling Groups from USENET can only be seen as vindication of the old store-and-forward technology from 1980. Things are bound to get better now that USENET moderators can finally feel free to blacklist all GMail traffic. - -- .. Be Seeing You, .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 54° — Wind S 5 mph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQT+MY/5I/LMPSswTbVg2/xipKOWUgUCZXzA5AAKCRBg2/xipKOW Ui+PAJ9SLjB988Cy944zMu8E5ue7chP49ACdF6Io5BGLV2a8GslTVsE0XHxU4fY= =aZIv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/20231215151100.22b39441%40BigTimber.LacusVeris.com.
