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I don't know why exactly, but it's really grating me that people have been replying to them. It may go against the spirit of Usenet but it would have been nice

I don't know why exactly, but it's really grating me that people have been replying to them. It may go against the spirit of Usenet but it would have been nice if Google disabled replies in their user interface, or at least filtered the display somehow. It's like going to a museum and seeing chewing gum stuck to the sides of the exhibits. "OMG 30 Years..." - yes mate, thanks for that. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/net.general/2pZYKaXpS0g/EiwFg5OMPaEJ https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/net.genera...

mootothemax 14y ago
It's like going to a museum and seeing chewing gum stuck to the sides of the exhibits. I agree with you, but on a fun side-note, I remember climbing the bell tower of a centuries-old church in the middle of nowhere, and being staggered by the amount of Victorian-era graffiti carved in to the walls. I guess that the need to write "TOM WOZ 'ERE" goes back a long way.
- pivotal 14y ago
  It's funny, new graffiti is vandalism, but old graffiti becomes history in and of itself. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, they have an entire Egyptian temple that at some point was shipped across the ocean, and to me the most fascinating part of it was the graffiti left by occupying British soldiers long after it was built. Go figure.
zandorg 14y ago
It's time someone setup an alternative usenet archive to Google Groups. The only people to do this were DejaNews.com, later acquired by Google. Then there was the 'look, we recovered all this old stuff off tapes' which is locked behind captchas and against the open spirit of usenet. [edit: the tape archive is available here http://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive http://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive] Perhaps the Internet Archive should archive usenet?
- DanBC 14y ago
  Having an archive that is properly searchable, and which isn't broken when re-ordering the results, would be lovely. (EG: Google groups often falls over when trying to sort by date.) I'd happily pay a small amount for that.

mootothemax 14y ago

It's like going to a museum and seeing chewing gum stuck to the sides of the exhibits. I agree with you, but on a fun side-note, I remember climbing the bell tower of a centuries-old church in the middle of nowhere, and being staggered by the amount of Victorian-era graffiti carved in to the walls. I guess that the need to write "TOM WOZ 'ERE" goes back a long way.

pivotal 14y ago
It's funny, new graffiti is vandalism, but old graffiti becomes history in and of itself. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, they have an entire Egyptian temple that at some point was shipped across the ocean, and to me the most fascinating part of it was the graffiti left by occupying British soldiers long after it was built. Go figure.

zandorg 14y ago

It's time someone setup an alternative usenet archive to Google Groups. The only people to do this were DejaNews.com, later acquired by Google. Then there was the 'look, we recovered all this old stuff off tapes' which is locked behind captchas and against the open spirit of usenet. [edit: the tape archive is available here http://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive http://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive] Perhaps the Internet Archive should archive usenet?

DanBC 14y ago
Having an archive that is properly searchable, and which isn't broken when re-ordering the results, would be lovely. (EG: Google groups often falls over when trying to sort by date.) I'd happily pay a small amount for that.