Mark wrote:
On Sep 20, 4:51Â*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Jim Logajan writes:
While I do not have a lot of time to spare for it, I would be willing to
perform the "dirty work" necessary toward creation of a moderated version
of this newsgroup. It would co-exist with this unmoderated one.

Moderated newsgroups are typically ghost towns.

Usenet itself began to die out in large numbers
with the advent of Facebook. The groups that
still flourish usually have a group of friends that want
to stay together, and/or people who can stomach the
occasional and infrequent troll passing through.

USENET and Facebook serve two entirely different purposes.

Back when USENET was distributed over 2400 baud modems at night with UUCP to
save cost and you had to be "somebody" to get connected even as a leaf node,
there were virtually no trolls or the gibbering, drooling mental patients
that infest USENET now.

Once USENET went TCP/IP connected and any moron with a credit card could
access the "Internet", USENET turned to crap.

What I see happening is the mental patients abandoning USENET for the more
graphical stuff, in part because a lot of them are challenged by anything
that isn't point and click.

Hopefully the trend will continue and USENET will go back to be being a
place for serious discussion.

Quantity is not the same thing as quality.


--
Jim Pennino

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