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Could converting blogs to USEnet work?

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We all know how blogs have degenerated USEnet,
mainly by the absurdity that you need to d/l the whole thread
to see *IF* there's a reply to your comment/query.

Which results in few multi-stage dialogs.
So the result is that 'contributors' all rush to have their
once-off shout.  And it's degenerated to a Friday night
bar-shout.

Isn't it also problematic to 'hold' 8 blogs open on your
'browser' at the same time as using it for other http-fetches ?

What would happen if 10 blogs which were likely to be read
by a cluster of inetters, were 'harvested' and NNTP-served.

Let's consider the NNTP fields:
From=ok; Date=ok; Subject=ok; ... seems ok.

The threading would initially be weak/lacking because
the bloggers normally find it difficult to put that info in
their message; but as they became aware of threading 
capabilities they would use it.

Probably the biggest problem would be legally, from
the owner of the harvested blogs?

Personally, I never use a full 'browser' for blog-reading.
`lynx` gets me the text, without that crap-in-ya-face.

I've never used RSS. Perhaps that already fixes the problems?

What do you think?

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Could converting blogs to USEnet work? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-21 18:00 +0000
  Re: Could converting blogs to USEnet work? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-21 18:06 +0000
  Re: Could converting blogs to USEnet work? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2012-01-22 16:31 -0500

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