Date: 29 Mar 2006 13:11:23 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: Google Groups
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:05:16 +0800, ngu <spamnospam.com> wrote: > On the dark side, Usenet newsgroups are unmoderated. They can have so > much flaming and spams that they're rendered largely useless, like my > local ones such as hk.rec.cars. Well, groups develop "personalities". This one is mostly signal with very little noise. When we're having an argument, it's just Paul not understanding me, or the other way around, and it's done in a good, non-threatening, "I know this person and we're disagreeing on something" kind of way, rather than a "Holy crap, what psycho did I just run into on that topic?" kind of way. Seems to me that if the problems aren't discouraged, entropy wants to take all groups in the 'useless' direction.
