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Re: Before we get totally entrenched here...

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On 2014-02-11 17:04:12 +0000, wjwlsn said:

> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:51:45 AM UTC-5, RS Wood wrote:
>> It seems AIOE, Albasani.net, and Eternal-September are the biggest and 
>> most well-known free providers and they all offer the alt hierarchy 
>> (though not the binaries). Solani.net is less well known but also 
>> covers the alt hierarchy. I like the other suggestions though. Let's 
>> give it a month and then decide if it's time to move to greener 
>> pastures.
> 
> I'm on board with this (wait a month and then decide). I felt the 
> question had to be asked, but I don't really have a strong opinion on 
> whether to stay in comp.misc, move to another group, or try to create a 
> new hierarchy. Besides, if Dice caves and ditches beta (ha!), or if 
> SoylentNews (or whatever the name ends up being) takes off in a big 
> way, a lot of people may just leave the newsgroup. I hope people stick 
> around though, because I really like the idea of having this kind of 
> discussion group being independent from any single owner.

While I doubt Dice will cave, and I also doubt that SoylentNews (or 
whatever) will gather enough steam to really draw people from Usenet, I 
don't intend to go (back) to either one.  Proprietary web forums have 
had their day, in my opinion, and I have seen enough of them ruined by 
over-zealous dictators, spam, marketing and political shillery, 
censorship in the name of and so forth, that I'd just rather stick to 
the original prototypical forum, Usenet.  It's also a philosophical 
stand - I don't think that I want to be contributing to the internet ad 
economy any more, and ultimately this is what most forums run on.

I sat in on an IRC chat on #altslashdot for a while, and it was clear 
that the goals they have in mind would engender the same kinds of 
problems that Slashdot (among other forums) has right now.

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Before we get totally entrenched here... wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 13:37 +0000
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 18:54 +0000
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 19:54 +0000
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-09 20:19 +0000
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... cykros <cykros@devio.us> - 2014-02-11 23:41 -0500
          Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-12 10:44 +0000
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 09:51 -0500
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... "Elizabeth T. Knuth" <eknuth@csbsju.edu> - 2014-02-11 01:09 -0600
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-11 11:27 +0000
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:34 -0500
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com - 2014-02-11 06:49 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-11 16:51 +0000
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:04 -0800
          Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-12 13:22 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... cykros <cykros@devio.us> - 2014-02-11 23:45 -0500
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:01 -0500
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... sagebump <outersend@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 09:33 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-03 12:05 -0600
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 19:49 +0000

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