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From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Usenet (was: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 21:54:43 -0700
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> Ed Lake wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 10:20:57 AM UTC-5, Ed Lake wrote:
> >>> The box into which I type seems to be 80 characters wide. But, I'm using Google,
> >>> not UseNet.
> >>
> >> Okay, now I am on Usenet.  […]
> >
> > Ah!  Usenet automatically used the 80 character line limit.  The message I typed on Usenet has shorter lines when displayed on Google.
> 
> The *one* line above is 134 characters long which is BADLY READABLE unless
> automatically word-wrapped by the newsREADER.  (Left unwrapped here.)
> 
> > But, Google is clearly easier to use.
> 
> Sadly, you still have no clue.
> 
> Usenet is NOT a piece of software, but a piece of HARDWARE: a COMPUTER
> NETWORK.  (Services like usenet.net add to the confusion.)
> 
> sci.physics.relativity is a Usenet newsgroup that is DISTRIBUTED between
> servers in that network; indeed, all newsgroups of the sci.* hierarchy
> (sci.ALL) are Usenet newsgroups.
> 
> The technology, the software (network protocols), underlying that form of
> communication is Network News (NetNews).
> 
> So you have been (ab)using Usenet all along without knowing it, even with
> Google _Groups_.  That is the main problem: Google Groups’ *Web* interface
> to Usenet/NetNews is inadequate to BROKEN, and a constant source of trolls
> because Google appears to be unwilling or unable to actively sanction
> network abuse by their users.
> 
> Newsreader software (NetNews clients) like Mozilla Thunderbird is/are
> actually EASIER to use (especially with the keyboard) and provide(s) more
> features than Google Groups (for example, a killfile).  It is the good
> newsreader software that would, by default, limit line length to 80
> characters or less (consider quoting) by automatic word-wrap; NOT the
> network, Usenet (and not even the network protocols, NetNews)
> 
> <http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet>
> 
> --
> PointedEars
> 
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you don't happen to have a good working udp?