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The news here is that a board oversees the "big 8" Usenet hierarchies has been re-established and is actively adding/removing groups. "Rises like a phoenix" is
by pyrophane 3y ago
The news here is that a board oversees the "big 8" Usenet hierarchies has been re-established and is actively adding/removing groups.
"Rises like a phoenix" is a bit hyperbolic.
- b112 3y agoA good read, but I'm pretty sure that there was usenet spam before then. I was looking through my archives of old text files a decade ago, and noticed that, to my horror, in 1982, I had spammed Punternet for water filters I was trying to sell as a teenager. Punternet was like Fidonet, but for C64 Punter BBS systems. And I'm sure someone spammed before me. Amusingly, I received a reply from someone on Texas, which blew my mind in 82, in Canada.
- dpe82 3y ago> "Rises like a phoenix" is a bit hyperbolic. If it weren't hyperbolic and a tad over the top, it wouldn't be The Register.
- lproven 3y agoHey. I wrote the article. Note, generally (not always) the editors and subeditors write the headlines, not the authors. They have a pretty good idea of what brings the clicks in, far better than me.