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Usenet was superior because the average IQ was higher and people more knowledgeable. A normal consequence of access being technologically limited to academia an
by 4ad 13y ago
Usenet was superior because the average IQ was higher and people more knowledgeable. A normal consequence of access being technologically limited to academia and very tech-savvy people.
- dsr_ 13y agoUsenet is superior because it evolved to handle large scale discussions properly. These include: - user agents that thread properly - long expiration times for local caches (spools) - cultural norms (that differed from group to group) about replies, new posts, quoting, and FAQs - groups are folders: the participant needs to make a decision to subscribe to a group, and then each time to read one group at a time, rather than trying to handle a dozen different groups in date-received order - and for a mixed blessing, search over the current spool was reasonably easy but general search was hard or impossible.
- hengheng 13y ago... all of which reddit (and to a lesser extent, slashdot and disqus) do just as well.
- 4ad 13y agoComparing Usenet or even mailing list cultural posting norms with Reddit is asinine. I still don't know how I can pipe a reddit comment into patch(1) or git(1). I can do that easily with mbox files (which can come from SMTP or nntp-to-mbox.pl(1) or something).
- voltagex_ 13y agoI don't think I've seen a patch as a Reddit comment, but grab a command line json parser, add a json extension to the URL and away you go
- voltagex_ 13y agoI don't think I've seen a patch as a Reddit comment, but grab a command line json parser, add a json extension to the URL and away you go
- voltagex_ 13y agoI don't think I've seen a patch as a Reddit comment, but grab a command line json parser, add a json extension to the URL and away you go