Usenet was pretty magical back in the 1990s. It had none of the problems that this article points out. The closest thing it has to a modern successor is publi

Usenet was pretty magical back in the 1990s. It had none of the problems that this article points out. The closest thing it has to a modern successor is public-inbox. Demand that your forums provide a public-inbox archive. http://public-inbox.org/README.html http://public-inbox.org/README.html It stores the entire discussion history in a git archive. You can git-clone discussions, and then git-pull just the new stuff. It applies git's brilliant "everybody has a copy of the whole repository, not just the guy running the CVS server" to discussions. sr.ht and kernel.org use this for their mailing lists.