wow

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?


--
Terrell Miller


"If Pop is a basket of kittens, and Punk a snarky little terrier, modern
Prog is the giant squid beast that eats them all"
-Entertainment Weekly

Terrell Miller wrote:

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?

The populace has spoken.

They prefer their fundamental right to free speech
over your pathetic fantasies of corporate fascism.

Or are you just too dumb to use a filter file?

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

Rand Simberg wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:32:49 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell
Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?

As I noted over at s.s.h, earlier, Usenet is dying.

It isn't dead yet, but it is certainly choking on the
troll and psyco far-off-topic posts that push out the
still useful messages made by still thoughtful people.
Recently, good alternative space discussion boards -
easier to use than Google's Usenet access - have
become available that squash the babble, though some
do it with an iron fist in a way that can be a bit unnerving.
(On one board, one off-topic post (as judged by one person
who probably doesn't live in your country even) can get you
banned for life by ISP number.) These are gradually
attracting more and more of the "thoughtful" people. But
I think they will continue to visit Usenet occasionally for
the very reason they hate it sometimes. Unfettered freedom.

- Ed Kyle

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:32:49 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell
Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?

As I noted over at s.s.h, earlier, Usenet is dying.

Just needs a good weeding.

--Damon

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:32:49 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell
Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?

As I noted over at s.s.h, earlier, Usenet is dying.

What happened is politics, spam, people who know others are out to get them
etc...

:-)

Brian

--
Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email:
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"Terrell Miller" wrote in message
...
there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?


--
Terrell Miller


"If Pop is a basket of kittens, and Punk a snarky little terrier, modern
Prog is the giant squid beast that eats them all"
-Entertainment Weekly

lack of real progress from nasa in manned space has stifled this group.
most news is bad, and nasa looks bad....

crossposting, more retards^H^H^H^H^ "regular joes" online, easier
newsreaders have all contributed to Usenet's decline. Did I mention the
crossposting? We live in a time where every day is Black Tuesday.

These NGs, especially sci.space.policy and s.s.tech have been an
incredible education for me. I've read them for the past 14 or so
years. I've learned so much from Henry, George Herbert, Henry V, Ed,
Rand and all the old-timers on this board. Thank you, gentlemen, and
Mary Schaefer. Also, seeing the mid-90s entrepreneurs develop out of
SSP was incredible: G. Hudson/Roton and J. Benson/Spacedev were very
open about their development on these boards.

USEnet's signal-noise ratio has dropped off precipitously over the past
few years. I still lurk here, but mostly post to the space.com boards
and slashdot (not THAT much better)...

usenet is still a great place for answers. The spambots and
tinfoil-hatters (the modern mad-hatter) are annoying but don't quite
cripple it.

Again, thanks for all the discussions and advice in the past.

Josh

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:38:26 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:32:49 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell
Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

there used to be serious, thought-provoking content here. The hell
happened?!?

As I noted over at s.s.h, earlier, Usenet is dying.

This might be part of the reason: I have had the experience of calling
tech support at my ISP about Usenet problems, and the kid on the other
end says, "What's Usenet?" Usenet cannot be owned, its content is
always free to users, so all the rent seeking corporations want it
dead, soonest.

-- Roy L

In sci.space.shuttle Josh wrote:
crossposting, more retards^H^H^H^H^ "regular joes" online, easier
newsreaders have all contributed to Usenet's decline. Did I mention the
crossposting? We live in a time where every day is Black Tuesday.

These NGs, especially sci.space.policy and s.s.tech have been an
incredible education for me. I've read them for the past 14 or so
years. I've learned so much from Henry, George Herbert, Henry V, Ed,
Rand and all the old-timers on this board. Thank you, gentlemen, and
Mary Schaefer. Also, seeing the mid-90s entrepreneurs develop out of

Agreed!
With bells on!
Oh for a working usenet death penalty.