Magi Dragon
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re:What's happening lately with these newsgroups? - 2006/08/01 15:34
It is the simple growth and evolution of Usenet. I have been on Usenet since the beginning, and in the beginning its intention was to share collegiate information between schools and/or departments. Since it was "open" to all
ops decided what would be propagated to their machines, and what would not.
As commercial domain (ISPs) users discovered Usenet, we found a large insurgents of "newbies" into Usenet. As everybody and their brother stated
kind of group you could imagine.
There has always been "Netiquette", in fact, that term was born on Usenet.
In the early days there were also "charters" to dictate behavior, and soon after that, "FAQs" which sometimes included conduct guidelines. But as the net grew, users found that their ISPs didn't really care about conduct on
Usenet...short of something proven illegal, ISPs did nothing about conduct on Usenet, and even then some would do nothing...unless forced by law enforcement.
Usenet today has evolved into seespool of spammers, flamers, and OT posts, because ISPs will not force their users to comply. And why should they...that would mean they lose a paying customer to another ISP...who of course doesn't force compliance.
It is the nature of the beast, and something we have to live with. Kill files and message rules work well, but I have also found many are moving over to moderated web-based sites that are topic specific.
Some continue to "crusade" against user who violate by complaining to their
ISP, but I have never seen any positive result from any ISP.
Looks like we just have to deal with it...  .
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