On 11/10/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/11/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yet somehow it keeps working, pretty much. This
is because every
> single one of the doomsday scenarios has happened and keeps happening
> and we've learnt to deal with them as part of the normal course of
> events.
We thought that about Usenet spam too, once.
We lost that one.
Usenet is presently much smaller but still going. The current Cabal
("OK YOU WANTED A CABAL NOW YOU'VE GOT ONE!") are working on how to
get people back from web boards. I volunteered to work on an AJAX
version of slrn, God help me ...
(And the spam is a lot less. Particularly if you apply vicious
filtering to Google Groups, who are now the biggest spam problem site
on Usenet and really couldn't give a shit. "Do no evil" apparently
doesn't include uncaring negligence.)
- d.