On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:59:53 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> On 6/10/2021 5:11 PM, wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:40:31 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any recipes from Europe? <ducking>
> >>
> >> Jill
> >>
> > *SMACK!*
> >
> LOL! I never did understand why Usenet was part of a college
> curriculum. It was old technology even by 1996 standards.
> Jill

It wasn't part of the curriculum. They got an account for their
coursework (almost all were engineering or computer science dweebs)
and discovered this great place where they could annoy people all
over the world.

Cindy Hamilton

On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 5:10:59 AM UTC-4, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:59:53 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> > On 6/10/2021 5:11 PM, wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:40:31 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone have any recipes from Europe? <ducking>
> > >>
> > >> Jill
> > >>
> > > *SMACK!*
> > >
> > LOL! I never did understand why Usenet was part of a college
> > curriculum. It was old technology even by 1996 standards.
> > Jill
>
> It wasn't part of the curriculum. They got an account for their
> coursework (almost all were engineering or computer science dweebs)
> and discovered this great place where they could annoy people all
> over the world.

Careful to remember though, that people who are annoyed by Usenet would be equally annoyed by whatever else was there, if it weren't. You can't please all of the people all ...

The truth is that Usenet is inhabited by people posting through their own private accounts, and not using the email addresses with their company or institutions' domain i.e., there's no incentive to maintain any sort of standards or be held accountable for the words they're putting out. All that stuff about student accounts being responsible for the Eternal September Effect is a whitewash. Back in the early 90's, the posts were mostly from the domains edu, gov, and mil. These days, most people post from the .com top-level domain.

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:36:50 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:

>The truth is that Usenet is inhabited by people posting through their own private accounts, and not using the email addresses with their company or institutions' domain i.e., there's no incentive to maintain any sort of standards or be held accountable for the words they're putting out. All that stuff about student accounts being responsible for the Eternal September Effect is a whitewash. Back in the early 90's, the posts were mostly from the domains edu, gov, and mil. These days, most people post from the .com top-level domain.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
--
Bruce

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:36:50 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:

>The truth is that Usenet is inhabited by people posting through their own private accounts, and not using the email addresses with their company or institutions' domain i.e., there's no incentive to maintain any sort of standards or be held accountable for the words they're putting out. All that stuff about student accounts being responsible for the Eternal September Effect is a whitewash. Back in the early 90's, the posts were mostly from the domains edu, gov, and mil. These days, most people post from the .com top-level domain.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
--
Bruce