At 01:11 AM 5/5/00 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>... actually, I'd personally be more worried abou the web archive then the
>newsgroups *shrug* That is permanent :)
Real web forums, like ... say, our OpenACS effort, just to mention one of
very, very many ... hide e-mail addresses from web harvesters.
Our users don't view that as being a defect, AFIAK.
So, not only do contributors do so without being paid, but they have to
get spammed as punishment for being good hacker citizens?
Seems weird to me. Mostly because there are other open source models
that don't so burden their contributors...
>> Why not face the reality that Usenet is the past, not the present and
>> certainly not the future?
>That is a matter of opinion, and you are most welcome to yours
It's not really much of an opinion. I mean ... just check the numbers.
Usenet vs. the web is like oral history vs. TV.
It was great, in its time.
>... I still
>use Usenet, as do several users that have been subscribing to the loophole
>mailing list and posting bug reports through Usenet ...
Several people get convenienced and the rest of us get spammed.
Gotta love it!
Hey, is the broken-for-two-months web archive up and running yet?
Not that I want to suggest you're living in the stone age, or anything
like that. Perhaps the bronze age...
Is the goal to be professional, or not? If the goal is to be professional,
then I (and others) shouldn't be opened to spam if I choose to post here
after having to register, etc. If the goal is to be professional, the
website archives should work.
On and on.
We don't have these problems at OpenACS.org or AOLserver.com, and we're
brand new.
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