[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

[Gerald "roguebfl" Grenier]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ben Finney
<bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Whether people want to continue using a cumbersome interface for
> whatever reason, is irrelevant to me, to the extent that I'm not
> impacted by another person's choice of access method.

Where as I Call NNTP the cumbersome interface. Web forums software has
the ability to plug in an external editor so being "forced to use a
bad editor" is not true. But on the Other hand it Extremely hard to
moderate, even moderate group can stop all the spam, no with out hand
approving everything, which means it cant handle volume that way. and
if something slip though, it next to impossible to get rid of it. Face
the main thing that "killed" Usenet is spam. Usage dropped off long
before ISPs stop caring news feed, the stop carrying it because the
customers were not using them, and the usage to spam content turned in
spam's favor. (basically it was costing them bandwidth for no gain)

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