XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   D  writes:   
      
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   >> Sometimes we need to wait.  We've done what we could so far.  The USENET   
   >> is still pretty good for conversation with the global community.  I wish   
   >> the experts would come back at least for a little while.  I believe the   
   >> experts come here, find not much and they go away.  I believe many have   
   >> done that.  In comp.lang.lisp, for example, there are more than a few   
   >> experts there, but they only appear sometimes because there's not much   
   >> going on there.   
      
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   > The highest expert ratio I have generally found on moderated   
   > mailinglists. I've also detected a few on usenet as well, so they are   
   > here, you just need to learn how to detect them. ;)   
      
   In the 00s (first decade), we had lots of very technical conversations.   
   I remember comp.lang.c.  Wow.  It was full of very knowledgeable C   
   programmers.  You can hardly see that now.   
      
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