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- Looks like a lovely way to recreate at home the Torment Nexus that DejaNews inflicted on us all those years ago. This tool doesn’t seem to have code recognizing X-No-Archive headers, which tracks. Why are people so insistent on having machine-generated indexes? Sigh.by altairprime
- Let's not. Many youthful indiscretions in there.by tiahura
- Could be useful to pre-populate and bootstrap a fresh personal use server/service...
I would love to see a return to more Usenet usage, as well as more semi-private BBS style networks transported over NNTP instead of FTN/Binkley protocols... These days most BBS systems are mostly local sysops and maybe a couple other sysops as users. I do think there's room for some modernization, but even then, I'd love to see a comeback.
Especially as the powers that be are progressing towards forcing ID verification on common social media sites... not that I have anything to hide, and I at least have #1A rights still, but so many around the world simply don't.
by tracker1 - I've thought about this a few times over the years, and the protocol is broken in ways that lead to poor UX - the whole thing became over-ran with crap. I do think it's possible to fix this with better client software, but nobody wanted to do that work, because everyone interested in building communities could make a lot more money taking VC funding and creating it in a walled garden that's now getting ID verification walls around it.by PaulRobinson