blast from the past

[rone]

Usenet II is in a persistent vegetative state these days, but there was a time when i had a good amount of hope for it.  I still believe in the core ideas behind it, but i know now that a widespread implementation would be a much taller task than i expected then.

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Use(less)netII

[lammah.livejournal.com]

The way to deal with a ghetto is to depopulate it, leaving it to service what it does for 99.9% of its volume (multimedia/binaries), not to try to barricade from the inside. That there hasn't been a suitable replacement (web-based forums/RSS) is a different issue.