From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:31:32 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2201312130430.3988@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220201022314.GW25875@mcvoy.com>
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 07:12:32PM -0700, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
>> On 1/29/22 1:48 AM, Andy Kosela wrote:
>>> I can speak only for myself, but I love that TUHS/COFF mailing lists are
>>> still _the real_ mailing lists managed the old school way.
>>
>> Usenet is still a thing that I use daily.
>
> So I used to be very active on Usenet, comp.arch and comp.unix.wizards
> were my jam. soc.singles, yeah, hung out there and I was not well
> loved for my views.
>
> I don't think I've been on usenet since the 1990's because it just
> turned into a cesspool of crap. Sort of Facebook but text.
>
> Are you saying there is still some decent value in Usenet or are you
> hanging on just because?
Well, I mostly lurk on comp.sys.apple2 and comp.os.cpm... there's
sometimes interesting stuff going on there still.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 0:36 Rich Morin
2022-01-27 1:55 ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2022-01-29 1:59 ` Charles Anthony
2022-01-29 2:24 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2022-01-29 2:36 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-29 8:48 ` Andy Kosela
2022-01-29 17:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-29 17:20 ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-01 2:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01 2:21 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-01 2:31 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2022-02-01 2:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01 18:19 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 18:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-01 12:45 ` Blake McBride
2022-01-29 17:20 ` Blake McBride
2022-01-30 1:20 ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-30 2:10 ` Will Senn
2022-01-27 2:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-01-27 2:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-27 21:11 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-01-27 2:52 Norman Wilson
2022-01-27 23:20 ` Nemo Nusquam
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.21.2201312130430.3988@sd-119843.dedibox.fr \
--to=usotsuki@buric.co \
--cc=gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net \
--cc=lm@mcvoy.com \
--cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).