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

In <[email protected]> D <[email protected]> writes:

>some of the articles cited in pws's cross-postings have been interesting
>and on-topic, "early history of usenet" <[email protected]>
>(links to https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html)
>organized, authoritative, self-explanatory albeit biased and opinionated

>but posting links to "reddit" or other social media to usenet newsgroups
>seems more like unsolicited advertising . . . junk mail, of little or no
>use to anyone...pws may not be troll farm, but shilling for social media?

A variation on an old religion joke:

Three men die and go to heaven. St. Peter meets them at the pearly
gates.  He says to the first man, "Welcome to Heaven! Back on Earth,
what social media did you use?"

The first man say, "I was a devout Facebook member."

St. Peter says, "Excellent! Then go to door 10, but when you pass door
number 2, be very quiet."

He then asks the second man, "When you were on Earth, what social media
did you use?"

The second man replies, "I was the administrator of my Mastodon
instance!"

St. Peter says, "Wonderful! Make your way to door 6, but when you pass
door 2, be very quiet."

St. Peter asks the last man, "What social media did you use on Earth?"

The man says, "I was on Twitter. Part of the X."

St. Peter says, "You know the drill. Go to door 12, but be very quiet
when you pass door 2."

The last man says, "Why is it we need to be so quiet when we go past
door 2?"

St. Peter replies, "Because that's where the Usenet people are and they
think they're the only ones here."

(Shamelessly cribbed from Reddit r/Jokes ...)

-- 
Paul W. Schleck
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