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> Email technology wasn’t owned by someone in particular, so anyone could use it. That fact alone should have been foreboding. So, roughly, "email is another e
by h2odragon 3y ago
> Email technology wasn’t owned by someone in particular, so anyone could use it. That fact alone should have been foreboding.
So, roughly, "email is another example of the disasters of public standards and the lack of proper commercial stewardship."
As we'd say in usenet days; plonk
- tptacek 3y agoYou get the irony of using Usenet as your rhetorical device, right? That was deliberate metacommentary?
- stonogo 3y agoWhat commentary would that be? What irony is on display here? Everything in this article applies to literally every communications media available on the internet. As group discourse moves across protocols and platforms, the same problems occur. I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between "plonk" and "lol blocked".
- tptacek 3y agoRight, but Usenet died.
- stonogo 3y agoWe might have different definitions of 'died.' Approximately a hundred thousand non-spam posts a month in the text heirarchy and hundreds of terabytes a month in the binaries seems like a living system to me. I accept that this might not be enough for others to bother with.
- simonblack 3y agoNot so fast. I still read about a dozen newsgroups.
- tptacek 3y agoOk. I believe you. Are the newsgroups in the room with us right now?
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- GoblinSlayer 3y agoAnd now we have walled gardens and monopolies abusing people to death.
- tptacek 3y agoTo death, you say!
- mpldr 3y agoYes, we must lock down everything and make it fully proprietary. Imagine having interoperable systems without vendor lock in!
- h2odragon 3y agoWhy, there would be no where to send the invoices... the disorder, the horror.