On 13 February 2012 15:39, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Nearly thirty years experience on the net, starting in '83 with Usenet, leave me entirely unconvinced that the underlying argument here -- that the extra layer of filtering involved in having to *want* to contribute enough to dig through the technical obstacles in the way is somehow A Bad Thing -- is entirely tenable.
Well, all those people left Usenet for message boards. And look how healthy Usenet is now!
I'd suggest that Usenet isn't a good example of what we want to happen.
- d.