Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet • Hacker News Board

Re: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Oct 09, 2009, 9:39 AM UTC

jodrellblank wrote: post #38

berntb wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was this griefer mythomaniac in the Swedish groups, who sent cancels on others' messages all the time when he couldn't answer (I assume with constructed headers so it wouldn't be removed on your local server). He also did things like send cancels on people quoting his insulting stuff long afterwards, so they wouldn't show up with his name in Google. I had read the rfc:s, but couldn't even imagine anyone would b…

Sorry! - Downvote was iPhone fatfingered mistake. (For a group so enthusiastic about version control with a leader who pushed for etherpad's timeline document history, this one vote then lockin feels a bit out of character)

An extra bit of room between those arrows would go a long way to solving that I think.

Re: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

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Post by stcredzero » Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 12:21 PM UTC

Perceval wrote: post #12

zandorg wrote: post #6

Time to take back Usenet and build another archive independently of Google, somehow.

Machiavelli warned Princes about the danger of being an 'unarmed prophet.' He might similarly warn you about being an 'unfunded revolutionary.'

Simon Bolivar was an 'unfunded revolutionary.' Under-funded for many of his campaigns, anyways. His exploits show that one can also derive significant energy from a general environment of horrendous suck.

Re: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

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Post by jodrellblank » Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 3:38 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #51

jodrellblank wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry! - Downvote was iPhone fatfingered mistake. (For a group so enthusiastic about version control with a leader who pushed for etherpad's timeline document history, this one vote then lockin feels a bit out of character)

An extra bit of room between those arrows would go a long way to solving that I think.

It would if you think I was going for the up arrow - I was actually going for the reply link of the parent post (yes, I had already zoomed in).

Re: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

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Post by queensnake » Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 4:41 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #10

The sad thing is that if Google had had the foresight to build in decent browsing, filtering etc., and polish up NNTP a bit, they could own the vast internet message board space, and we would be reading this on alt.hacking.ycombinator or suchlike. It's not that people aren't interested in chatting to each other on the internet, I waste depressingly large quantities of time reading and posting in 5-6 different forums,…

In the States, Verizon and Comcast have stopped including Usenet because of kiddie porn concerns (or it might have been an excuse), that's probably 70% of why it's moribund.