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Apparently, though unproven, at 06:27 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, kashani |
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did opine thusly: |
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> On 9/6/2010 4:55 PM, Al wrote: |
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> > Well that is the first advantage of a newsreader. It does not spam |
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> > your mailbox. You select yourself what you want to read by the header. |
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> > The other contents are never delivered to you, eat up neither traffic |
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> > nor space. People don't really need to complain of to much traffic. |
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> I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news |
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server |
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> these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having to pay |
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> for access when email works well enough. |
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> kashani |
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There's a public news server on my work network. |
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My team is supposed to maintain it. |
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Shit, I'M supposed to maintain it. |
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I have no idea where it is, what it is, how to log into it or even what it's |
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hostname is. It's just there, in collective memory, as something that used to |
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was and might still be. |
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No member of the public has asked any question about it for years (I would |
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know - I maintain the ticket queue that support mails for news would have to |
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go into). And this is the largest business-serving network in the country |
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(i.e. not some small minor player ISP). |
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If that's not a damning indictment against news, then I don't know what is. |
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I don't know who this fellow Al is, but he seems to have a stuck idea from 10+ |
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years ago. Gentoo doesn't have a newsgroup probably because Gentoo users do |
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not want one. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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