18 Mar
1998
18 Mar
'98
10:01 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
I've always thought a much more sensible approach
is the private
news server. It allows pruning of unruly threads, either by the
reader (ignoring off-topic subjects) or by a B.D. who trims
away junk messages. It allows auto-archiving. It doesn't clog
mail routes and mail boxes. You can read it with any Usenet news reader,
just point to someone else's server. It would be easy to split
into .hardware, .software, .culture sub-groups.
Good idea in a way but my days back as a SysOp on my own private Fidonet BBS
shows these closed areas/news servers to be VERY boring. The same people
write the same things, and it gets extremely predictable. Although there's an
occasional email scuffle, open areas that are topic specific seem to work the
best. (Just my
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