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Old April 26th, 2009 #17
akkiraj23
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Where USENET has fallen tragically short is element 5: "Means of excluding burdensome people." Most USENET clients include "bozo filters" that enable an individual user to filter out messages from a persistently troublesome poster. But there is no collective way for a group to exclude a person who consistently starts irrelevant threads, spams the group, abuses others, or otherwise becomes unwelcome.

With regard to element 6, software extension by community members themselves, USENET has done remarkably well. USENET servers and clients tend to be monolithic C programs where small modifications can have catastrophic consequences. On the other hand, the average user of the early Internet was a skilled software developer. So if not every USENET user was a programmer of USENET tools, it was at least safe to say that every programmer of USENET tools was a user of USENET.
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