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John Williamson John Williamson is offline
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Default 2016 Los Angeles AES Show Report

On 07/10/2016 21:26, JackA wrote:
On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 3:45:39 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Groups are dying because of trolls and people that feed them


They are also not liked by ISPs, who can't work out a way to make large
profits out of them, as they find it hard to push adverts.

All web based message interchanges, especially the free ones, have a
large, profitable for the ISP, advertising content, which is a b*tch to
filter out. If you are not the customer, you are the product, and it's
hard to make usenet users into products.

Usenet stinks for file sharing, etc.. Even EasyNews offered a web based
version of Usenet. I thought that was illegal, since THEY are
instrumental in the file sharing.

Anyone can legally write a web based interface to usenet, all they need
to do is scrape a newsfeed of a few peers. There are even scripts to do
so somewhere on the web, if you look hard enough. One of the best
examples of this is Google Groups, though they do, at least, attempt to
keep a decent archive.

Usenet was originally set up as a better, faster, version of the early
dial up bulletin boards, and still works with 7 bit ASCII as the actual
message transmission medium, translated to and from 8 bit at the servers.

The original specification expected people to post links to files on
their servers in order to share, and the binary groups came later as an
attempt to get round having to run your own permanently connected file
server.


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Tciao for Now!

John.