On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing
> lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various
> flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook,
> and TokTik, and more of the same. It takes more mental effort and
> discipline to participate meaningfully in the former, but much less
> in the latter. It's a much lower barrier of entry; hence this latest
> episode with Gnome.

I miss using usenet, it was much better than mailing lists.  You could
post without exposing your email address.  The usenet clients had
excellent threading, filtering, and a decent editor for posting and
replying.  Of course spammers were a problem, but a decent usenet host
could have taken care of that.