XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   Johanne Fairchild  writes:   
      
   > I think we're doing our part.   
      
   !!!   
      
   > If the world has moved on, that's fine.   
      
   Maybe.  I see not much fun New Fedistan (Mastodon & friends).   
   Generation 10 second attention span may see it differently.   
      
   > I'll continue to use NNTP and perhaps other media that are focused on   
   > writing and reading.   
      
   I like those gateways of mailing-lists and other stuff to NNTP.  We   
   should have even more stuff in/via NNTP.   
      
   > I don't care for images, sounds, video or whatever   
      
   Depending on the newsreader it may work.  GNUS already has problems with   
   animated GIFs, but if TB uses FF's HTML renderer, much more may be   
   possible.  There should be more experiments with this in other   
   hierarchies or contexts.   
      
   > and I also think that NNTP sort of supports all of that: people here   
   > often add external URLs on which we download videos, images and   
   > whatnot.   
      
   That's how it will stay in text only groups.  But NNTP is not only Big8   
   and their rules and with MIME a lot more is doable.  The client is the   
   limit.   
      
   \o/  I even get XKCD via NNTP.  \o/  Thanks feedbase!  \o/   
      
   --   
   4. Hitchhiker 11:   
   (72) "Watch the road!'' she yelped.   
   (73) "Shit!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)