From: theratur@openmailbox.org   
      
   Conceited Jerk  writes:   
      
   > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:37:28 +0000, Nicolas belched forth:   
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   >> Conceited Jerk  writes:   
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   >>> [22 quoted lines suppressed]   
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   >> Thanks for the links.   
   >> On the deep web, well, it's like in life, if you don't go to the dark   
   >> part of the town, nothing will ever happen to you. You just have to go   
   >> at the right place. Don't search for the "hardcore".   
   >> Anyway, I start to realise that a lot of very good community are   
   >> actually hidden, to keep themselfs against the troll hoards. That's really   
   >> too bad. You sometimes needs password, or to know a guy already in the   
   >> community IRL.   
   >> The democratisation of internet to everyone is maybe the thing that   
   >> hurted it the most.   
   >   
   > I tend to agree.  I *lived* in the bad part of town (both literally and   
   > figuratively) for many years.  I'm at the point in my life where I actually   
   > prefer the quiet of the suburbs (again, literally and figuratively) and   
   > sticking to our own insular groups (Usenet, BBSes, etc, and social groups   
   > in the physical realm).  Of course, there are jerks in real life, too ;)   
      
   Can you link some BBSes? The problem is that there is a lot of BBSes   
   still up, but I don't know which is what since I'm a new comer.   
   Well, we all end as jerks anyway from time to time :)   
      
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