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In the 90s we had so much discussions about netiquette on usenet. It seems naive now.
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
In the 90s we had so much discussions about netiquette on usenet. It seems naive now.
- mhd 3y agoI remember a lot of arguments about how a signature should look…
- kimi 3y agoAbout the number of bytes a signature was supposed to be....
- giamma 3y ago80 bytes was the limit in Italy. At that time in Italy we did not have free local phone calls, every call would be billed based on its duration. Now imagine being a Fidonet sysop who on a volunteer basis was running a computer at home 24/7, often having a second phone line dedicated to the computer (at the time even more expensive) to make sure that your users would not clog your home landline making you unreachable all day. Plus overnight your system would need to dial up and connect to your hub and exchange all data produced by your user's discussions (echomail). All the costs were on the sysop and the national hubs in Italy would then exchange with a system running in Belgium or the Netherlands, system which would in turn then exchange with USA. Flat rates did not exist (at least in Italy), and no sysop was asking (at least in Italy) end users to contribute with money or a subscription. That is why content was moderated in the first place, to avoid off topic discussions that would waste byte and increase the bills. For this reason you would also need to limit signatures, tag-lines and so forth to 80 bytes, which IMHO are more than enough for a signature, unless you want to add ASCII ART to it.
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- llarsson 3y agoYou could have just had your Geek Code in there to be efficient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code for the people who didn't get to experience it
- Angostura 3y agoAns if you did it wrong, you would be mercilessly roasted on alt.fan.warlord
- mhd 3y agoDo kids these days even know where Perth is?
- defrost 3y agoJust show us your map of Tasmania.
- FridayNightTV 3y agoThe Mapatazi? An increasingly rare thing these days.
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- zik 3y agoBut we didn't have mods then which I think makes a difference.
- WaitWaitWha 3y agoMy mileage varies. In my FidoNet nodes and the ones I visited there was explicit moderation. We were just called sysops. For Usenet, in all sci. & comp. there were heavy moderation, and of course little to no moderation in alt. at least what I saw.
- chx 3y agoYours truly have translated RFC 1855 to Hungarian some three decades ago.