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by u801e 3y ago
> Don't Reddit and Twitter email you when you get a reply -- or at least have the option to get an email? Yes, but you would have to check a completely different service to see whether you got any replies. Most people would probabl
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by u801e 3y ago
> Are there other use cases now for Usenet nowadays? Maybe not usenet itself, but NNTP gateways can be used to browse mailing lists.
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by u801e 3y ago
From what I've read, they're transferring multiple petabytes of data a day between different backbone NNTP server farms.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Most ISPs didn't provide much information if they had a NNTP server users could use, and NNTP readers didn't come with most users computers. HTTP did. Until Outlook Express was replaced by Windows Mail, most users computers d
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by u801e 3y ago
> Personally I would love to see Usenet replace localized Facebook groups. It actually happened the other way around. Local ISPs had newsgroups that had limited distribution where people local to you would post about upcoming events, th
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by u801e 3y ago
> I can discover interesting subreddits by pure chance by following a google search on a question I have. Or following a link on a blog > There’s no chance of that happening on Usenet. You could the list of newsgroups for phrases that
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by u801e 3y ago
> One thing to remember, you never see a post from your teenage self on USENET being dragged up by your employer causing you to be fired or loose out on a job. Why, privacy still exists on USENET. Google at one point did a very good job
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by u801e 3y ago
> If Reddit just had an NNTP bridge, people would flock to it and never know the differece. I never really looked into it, but if someone were to make a NNTP bridge for reddit, Hacker News, and other similar websites, would it be against
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by u801e 3y ago
> Usenet was at one point a huge portion of internet traffic. Usenet posts were just text that may have been several kilobytes in size at most. If you look at binary newsgroups, the current level of internet traffic is quite large[1] (t
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by u801e 3y ago
> How can I focus on a threaded conversation if I can't visually see the difference between the participants? Quickly looking at an avatar is easier than reading an email address. The from column in the thread pane view in my client
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by u801e 3y ago
> Thunderbird was still pretty popular around then as well Thunderbird didn't come out until the early 2000s. The predecessors were Mozilla mail & news and Netscape Communicator. Seamonkey[1] is an offshoot of the former once
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by u801e 3y ago
> Outlook Express was a shit show The main problem OE had was the quote wrapping problem that other clients didn't. The other was that it defaulted to top posting IIRC.
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by u801e 3y ago
> By the late 90s Usenet was well into the Eternal September and inundated with spam. Unmoderated groups were a mess. There was also just the simple problem of formatting. IIRC Outlook Express defaulted to MIME/multipart posts which
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by u801e 3y ago
> There was also Outlook Express. It was the one client that never fixed their quoted text wrapping bug IIRC.
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by u801e 3y ago
> But as a commercial matter, you could not; if you didn't have binary groups, you weren't offering real Usenet (and if your binary feeds weren't ultra-reliable, you were offering shitty Usenet). None of the ISPs I had fro
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by u801e 3y ago
And the yEncoding scheme also got rid of the 33% data size overhead inherent in base64 encoding. It's too bad that never made it over to email.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Seems like nobody has mentioned a huge reason Usenet failed: > It needed a client program. Many services required client programs to use. Email did and still does unless you use webmail. And there are services that allow you to re
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by u801e 3y ago
> Yes it is slow People using it for binary downloads can pull down data at gigabit speeds. > it should still be kept as a no-frills alternative when things have to depend on low-bandwidth. It's unfortunate that most websites and
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by u801e 3y ago
> Usenet really died in 2007 winter-2008 Spring, when all major ISPs killed their subscriber Usenet servers. They never officially stated why It was because the attorney general of New York (Andrew Cuomo) made a deal with major ISPs to r
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by u801e 3y ago
> There's no reason a private/paid service addon to a client can't work for filtering. There should be no reason why a service can't provide that feature natively.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Client-side filtering requires awareness of client-side filtering. How many Reddit users want that ? Facebook users ? Facebook[1] and Reddit[2] both have a block user feature. It's a very rudimentary version of the killfile that
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by u801e 3y ago
> the "big event". (When ISP's everywhere killed Usenet servers, for what is pretty surely assumed as anti-piracy.) I thought this was due to the deal[1] that Andrew Cuomo (New York's attorney general at the time) mad
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by u801e 3y ago
> lack of notification method The way usenet clients worked was when new message headers were downloaded, the client would highlight unread messages. It's pretty similar to email where when you receive new messages, you can tell th
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by u801e 3y ago
> anonymity (email address not exposed) Quite a few people posted under pseudonyms with fake email addresses on usenet. > notifications When you downloaded new headers from the server, the client would highlight the new messages in a
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by u801e 3y ago
In my opinion, the main reason[1][2] for its decline in terms of text discussions was due to the deal that Andrew Cuomo (the attorney general of New York at the time) made with the major ISPs to restrict access to child pornography. This r
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by u801e 3y ago
> I do know what I saw with my own eyes What did you see with your own eyes. Were you a first hand witness of a ballot box stuffing incident? When and where did it happen? Did you take a video of it with sound? > video shows people
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by u801e 3y ago
Buses do have radios where one can contact dispatch and other drivers.
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Maybe employees should take that into account. If work hours are from 9 am through 5 pm, then the commute starts at 9 am and again at 4 pm.
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by u801e 3y ago
I think people prefer mailing lists over nntp due to a number of reasons: 1. It's easier to set a mailing list up compared to creating a new newsgroup or setting up an on-premise NNTP server (is NNTP as a service even a thing?) 2. Most
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by u801e 3y ago
The only think that email lacks that nntp has is the ability to easily find messages from before you subscribed to the list (or were CC'd). With email, you could download a list archive and import it in your MUA, but with NNTP, you ca

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