Subj : Does Usenet still have value?
To   : tenser
From : Oli
Date : Thu Feb 10 2022 11:24:01

tenser wrote (2022-02-10):

 t> As always, after the initial question is answered, threads tend
 t> to continue on ad infinitum with random speculation and naval gazing.
 t> That at least hasn't changed, even if much of it is uninteresting.

Isn't this a property (feature or bug?) of many online conversations? Happens in web forums, chat groups, echomail ...

Most of the times I like it better than the Discourse-like aggressive auto-locking of threads or too much moderating.

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