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Re: Dissolving Choke Points
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In list.cypherpunks, [email protected] writes:
> My mention of Usenet was somewhat tongue-in-cheek; I don't know if I'd bother
> with the list if it were moved to (or gated with) Usenet, as Usenet has
> become for the most part 100+ Mb/day of uselessness.
An obvious point. But you go on to say...
> The good side I see to a move to Usenet is that it lets people use the
> comparatively better tools for managing messages
[...]
FWIW, I gate all my subscribed mailing lists to local newsgroups because
my newsreading tools are much better than my mailreading tools.
> The down side is that Usenet is more or less a sewer these days, and some of
> it's bound to spill over.
The unfiltered list already had spammers and flamers. Would you expect
nore sewage, different sewage or a combination?
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