OT: on places such as the USENET

From	Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	OT: on places such as the USENET
Date	2022-01-30 09:21 -0300
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<86v8y176t6.fsf@levado.to> (permalink)

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It's amazing how much I can't see when I'm analysing the smallest
problems.  I only know this because of places such as the USENET.  I
post my big problems here and you guys show how small they are.

This leads to me wonder about the future of the USENET.  

These days there are privately-owned places on the web where technical
people share questions and answers.  They're not nearly well-populated
as the USENET.  This seems very clear to me.

As an optimistic note, I always conclude that smart people will always
build a good place for them.  But pessimistically I wonder if this is
happening right now.  I do not consider these privately-owned places on
the web to be a good place.  (Their format of question-and-answers, for
instance, is a lose.  Smart people don't want to be framed like that.
Not to mention the medium under the control of someone else.)  (I know
there are very smart people in these places.  I'm not failing to
recognize that.)

When I talk to very young people, I notice how they never heard of
things like the USENET or IRC.  

I'm sure you guys have discussed all of this before.  If not anything
else, at least this post should serve as a thank-you-note.  Thank you!

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OT: on places such as the USENET Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-30 09:21 -0300
  Re: OT: on places such as the USENET doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2022-01-30 13:51 +0000
    Re: OT: on places such as the USENET Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2022-02-05 15:00 +0300
  Re: OT: on places such as the USENET Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-01-30 16:26 +0100
    Re: OT: on places such as the USENET NOSPAM.Alex.Sardo@darkrealms.ca (Alex Sardo) - 2022-01-30 13:16 +0000
  Re: OT: on places such as the USENET Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> - 2022-02-05 14:22 +0800

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