Well but that would be great, I'm too young to have been part of that magical usenet era that people talk about with such reverence, and these days I have no id

Well but that would be great, I'm too young to have been part of that magical usenet era that people talk about with such reverence, and these days I have no idea how to get on there, if there's anyone on there I might care about, or whether it even still exists. So a new usenet with extra steps (and, uh, accessible through the http protocol) sounds great to me.