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crankylinuxuser | karma 1209 | avg karma 0.79 · 2018-03-12 19:28:02+00:00

Yep. That was usenet. But in those days, we didn't have 3rd party recommended filters - but there's no reason why they wouldn't work now.

Maybe it's time to remake Usenet, minus binaries. Binaries, piracy, and their data load per server are what killed Usenet.

(Yes, I know it's still living on in paid-service world. But gone are the days your ISP runs a machine.)

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jstarfish | karma 5456 | avg karma 2.19 · 2018-03-13 21:35:37+00:00

> Binaries, piracy, and their data load per server are what killed Usenet.

Binaries and piracy were two of the biggest reasons to use Usenet.

Spam is what killed it.

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crankylinuxuser | karma 1209 | avg karma 0.79 · 2018-03-14 20:23:24+00:00

I respectfully agree and disagree.

Spam was and still is a nassive headache. However Bayesian filters were really starting up. But Spam was annoying at best.

What caused Usenet servers to be quit was that ISP's were seeing them as a pirate haven and a lawsuit magnet. There was all the impetus to stop supporting piracy, and lose the costs incurred with that bandwidth to a Usenet server.

Sure, it was a great draw to use it to pirate... but it is also why it fell. Now these days, time to move to IPFS. That place is ripe for piracy, and super simple to share.

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