Re: FYI: RIAA tries to pull plug on Usenet. Seriously.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:14:27 -0500, Adam Albright wrote:
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> As far as idiots, you seem to be a member in good standing of that
> club. Usenet was formed with one purpose in mind. NO RULES.
That is completely wrong.
Usenet was formed on the back of bulletin boards. It was innitially just
an easier way to find groups or boards, before then you had to wait until
someone invited you, the groups were to talk about things you are
interested in.
Obviously there were many UNIX bulletin boards, because bulletin
boards started on UNIX. But you also got many other groups as things
picked up speed.
The only reason rules started to come into play was because of the
spoilers, those who would set up a script to pour gunge into the boards.
Then later spam and adverts.
The news groups are full of spoiled groups, some ran their course and died
naturally, others were attempting to be free of control and were simply
destroyed with spam.
> I know. I
> was there from the beginning. Yet there are always bozos like you that
> always attempt to impose and enforce rules you think would fit your
> distorted view of what others may enjoy.
There are two sorts of rules, those that try to limit what the posters can
say, I am fully against those. I don't like the little hitlers banning
people from groups or filtering posts, because it always ends up with them
filtering out any post that disagrees with their own stance, what ever the
subject.
The other rules are those that try to protect the users so that they can
say what they want to say. These have limited success.
As fot the binaries though, you have to remember that not everyone is on
broadband and not everyone likes to boot into a gui. A huge block of mime
can tie up a farmers PC for ages. For those on text only readers it is
just a huge block of crap.
Binaries are much better out of the news group, just a link to another
place.
I would be interested to know why you were so insulting to lythos. I
thought his comments were reasonable.
And yes, I too was there at the start, so don't try to use the 'I was on
the first BB' argument with me because those days are long gone and it
just don't wash as a modern argument, the people are different, not
better and not worse, just different. We were all 100% techies/geeks in
those days and many of the groups were pretty much the same thing, mates
talking pewters, arranging the next beer fest, oops I mean UNIX show and
sharing bits and bobs.
If the modern news groups were pure geek as they were then, no one would
join them, including myself. Such things have a limited life.