Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    alt.books.inklings    |    Discussing the obscure Oxford book club    |    1,925 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 30 of 1,925    |
|    vjp2@biostrategist.com to All    |
|    Re: [OT] Deterioration in Usenet    |
|    14 Oct 03 19:14:59    |
   
   XPost: alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox, alt.books.beatgeneration,   
   alt.usage.english   
   XPost: soc.culture.south-africa, rec.arts.books, misc.education   
   XPost: sci.anthropology   
      
   Weeks? Years!   
      
   Every online forum system (bboard in the early 1980s, bix & compuserve in the   
   Bush Sr years,   
   listservs & usenet after that) has deteriorate in like fashion.   
      
   Informed users are usually first. Then it becomes like shouting in a crowded   
   train station.   
      
   It's the price to pay for democracy.   
      
   Privacy & free speach are mutually exclusive!   
      
      
    - = -   
    Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bio$trategist   
    BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian   
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm   
    ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
    [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
|
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca