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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com> writes:

> The fun thing about Usenet is that it never left, and by its very
> design, was/is able to stick around as long as there are folks
> interested in running a server and peering to at least one other
> server.

It should be done more often and ...

> I ran one for a while.  Slightly hairy/slightly above my level of
> expertise,

... it should be easier.

> but I enjoyed it.

\o/

> Usenet rules.  Noone owns it so no one can pull the kind of
> shenanigans you now see on Twitter/Reddit.

I think a more P2Pish dimension of peered news servers should exist
too.

> Most young people will be turned off that it involves text, not
> images.

I see HTML (even with images) via NNTP in my news reader.  In correct
MIME containers this is possible but may not be wanted in some groups.

Some software already seems to compose MIME multipart-alternative
structures with a HTML and plain text variant of the same contents.

UTF-8 and MIME won't go away any more.

But that proves, that news in general has not avoided to evolve.

\o/

-- 
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