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At this point, the Usenet servers which took massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space take tiny amounts of bandwidth and disk space (assuming you don't allow
by dsr_ 6y ago
At this point, the Usenet servers which took massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space take tiny amounts of bandwidth and disk space (assuming you don't allow binary posts).
Maybe it's time for Usenet to come back.
- Truly federated
- Topic focus instead of people-focus
- Killfiles!
- Proper threading
- Standards-based servers and clients
- tlavoie 6y agoUsenet over UUCP worked just fine, with UUCP serving up email too on the dial-up batch syncs.
- numismatex 6y agoSo did FTP over e-mail. The tech evolves. UUENcode sucked, btw. And the NZB-based file aggregation and directories served up were pure trash.
- rbanffy 6y agoI really like NNTP, but spam was becoming a huge problem in the Usenet and its nature makes it harder to assert the identity of a poster.
- sdenton4 6y agoI mean, if people want to give out helpful information about gland enlargement alongside links to where supplements can be purchased for the astonishingly low price of $12 a pill, who are we to try to stop them? Provide an unfiltered free speech platform and the stronger ideas will win, right?
- coderaptor 6y agoJust provide more effective tools allowing users to tune their own feeds.
- vkou 6y agoWith a profit or ideological motive, I can spam you, and shout over all meaningful communication much faster than you can block me.
- jjoonathan 6y agoYeah, and the idea of a spam filter won.
- saurik 6y agoSpam filters can be opt-in. Spam filters can be federated. Spam filters can be local. It simply isn't true that decentralized censorship resistant systems fundamentally require users to be inundated with spam.
- jjoonathan 6y agoI wish that were the case.
- klyrs 6y ago> Killfiles! Ah yes, censorship rears its ghastly head again. Or, what a quaint approach to spam.
- indymike 6y agoAs I recall, killfiles couldn't keep up with the glut of spam that happened.
- dsr_ 6y agoThe charitable explanation is that you don't know what a killfile is. It is a personally created and maintained list of subject lines and/or poster addresses that you don't want to see. They can be limited to specific groups or be universal; they can be used to remove entire threads or just the messages that match. In other words, it's a personal filter on incoming information. It's Joo Janta Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses. If it is censorship, it is a censor who works for you, obeys your commands, and never imposes your opinions on anyone else. And it's not particularly good for spam, nor does anyone think that is its purpose. A killfile works against persistent trolls and idiots.