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Re: Threads after all! Is this community dying?

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On 09.02.13 19.07, Michael Podolsky wrote:
> Guys, have you run away from the spam? Have you just moved to some
> other place to communicate?

Spam is one reason. While it does not impact the regular readers much - 
killfiles are still effective - it prevents new people from joining the 
group because they can't see useful content between the spam.

But it is a general trend, that people prefer colorful web forums with 
more or less unsuitable, at least inhomogeneous, user interfaces. The 
Usenet is going to die. More and more ISPs do no longer provide a nntp 
server for their customers. Only the binary group pay servers seem to 
survive - for other reasons, of course.

Some forum software provide an nntp gateway. It is more or less 
configured by the admin, if at all. But free forum servers prevent this 
kind of access intentionally, because they can't put colorful 
commercials over the nntp protocol. Furthermore the want to collect data 
about their members.

In the open source community mailing lists are still common. This is 
like a distributed nntp server. ;-)


Marcel

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Threads after all! Is this community dying? Michael Podolsky <michael.podolsky.69@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 10:07 -0800
  Re: Threads after all! Is this community dying? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2013-02-09 19:44 +0100
    Re: Threads after all! Is this community dying? Michael Podolsky <michael.podolsky.69@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 10:59 -0800
      Re: Threads after all! Is this community dying? Gerhard Fiedler <gelists@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 10:16 -0200
        Re: Threads after all! Is this community dying? andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2013-03-02 15:26 +0000

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