Re: Bridging Usenet to other social networks?

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:32:32 -0000 (UTC)

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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:26:59 -0500, Paul wrote:

> On Tue, 2/10/2026 6:57 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't every thread in every newsgroup go that way ...... if it
>> 'lives' long enough??
>
> Actually, no.

Yes, it does and did. I’ve been on Usenet (off and on) since about the
early-to-mid 1990s, and “Usenet topic drift” was a running joke even
back then.

The moderated ones could be kept on-topic simply by the moderators’
ability to reject irrelevant postings. But even that could be
subverted without great difficulty.