Stan Shebs wrote:
Another irony is that Usenet was once as revered as a source of good information as Google is today - I suspect part of the disconnect in the discussion is the difference in perception between people for whom it was an important part of their lives (in my case, 1982 to 1994 or so), vs those who've never known it as anything other than a flame board.
There are still useful parts of Usenet, for instance http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ne.transportation/browse_frm/thread/288c... (used as one of several sources for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Street_Incline ).