Re: Why can't we just "reset" Usenet?

02.03.25 | 02:19, Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]>:
> Steve Bonine <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
> By the way, I think Hacker News is almost great---the problem is all on
> ther the /web/ interface.  There's nothing wrong with the interface;
> it's just choice of medium that's the problem.  I'd prefer to use a
> terminal to search, for example, than to visit the web.  I see no point
> in web forums when we have NNTP.
>
> Perhaps we should be talking about extending NNTP clients to be more
> powerful and extending servers, too, but perhaps we shouldn't---perhaps
> we should just extend NNTP servers to be used by a telnet or netcat
> client, which is a lot easier.  (Oops---I totally changed the subject.)

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