Spammers killed the parts (model building) of Usenet that I frequented.
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On 1/15/2013 3:38 PM, David Breneman wrote:
> From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
>
>
>> Actually, I think the "technical"
> correlation mentioned is only valid
>> for an
>> earlier generation. The
> "internet" no longer qualifies as any kind of
>> technical interest or hobby,
> any more than using a phone, or a household
>> appliance.
> I remember that in
> the 80s, the assumption was that if someone had access
> to a Usenet news feed
> or email, they worked in the technology field. Same
> thing with Internet
> access up until about 1994 or so. That reality pretty
> much died when AOL
> "discovered" the internet and sold access to Usenet and
> mailing lists as a
> "feature" to their dim-bulb subscribers. It used to
> be that the signal to
> noise ratio went way down every September, when a new
> class of college
> freshmen got network access at their schools. When AOL
> and the other
> "consumer" ISPs came on line, every month was September.
> That pretty much
> killed Usenet.
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