What About USENET2?

One Who Remembers asks: "In light of the recent death of one of the founders of USENET, here is perhaps a timely question: What ever happened to USENET2? It seems some old-timers wanted to re-create USENET with some sort of moderation built into it's core. I remember discussion about it back in my USENET days, and I know it came 'on-line'. However, if you look at the USENET2 web site it seems pretty tough to get access to USENET2. Is it worth it? Is USENET2 even alive? You may also want to read this, which is probably the best eulogy for USENET I've ever read." When I first came onto the net, I spent a lot of time on Usenet. It's a lot less than it once was, but I'm still glad to see that it's still going. Maybe that "eulogy" was a bit premature?

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Re:Mailing lists

[JabberWokky]

with none of the downside.

Except the distributed and yet centralized nature of usenet. You can flip through groups, casually read them, post without registering and so on - something you can't do on a mailing list. At the same time, the hierarchy shows a remarkable organtic ability against fragmentation. Name a topic, and you can find the one and only one group that discusses and is focused just on that topic. Duplicate group *names* persist, but the traffic migrates to only one group... an interesting statement on human interaction.

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Evan