[HN Gopher] Usenet Archives Collected by Norman Yarvin
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       Usenet Archives Collected by Norman Yarvin
        
       Author : nabla9
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-09-11 16:52 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (yarchive.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (yarchive.net)
        
       | wolverine876 wrote:
       | > The vast majority of these articles were posted by people who
       | have a well-deserved reputation for a high level of accuracy. The
       | most extreme case is perhaps that of Henry Spencer, who makes
       | errors so rarely that in the space newsgroups it was an event,
       | involving the awarding of a (virtual) "I corrected Henry Spencer"
       | T-shirt, when anyone else found an error of his.
       | 
       | Imagine an Internet where accuracy was valued. Are there forums
       | around now which are like that? What does it take?
        
         | qtwf wrote:
         | It takes a firm tone from the beginning that weeds out and does
         | not tolerate fools.
         | 
         | Once fools have taken over > 50% of the messages and start
         | writing in an authoritative manner, all is lost. See the
         | python-dev mailing list after the woke revolution for example.
        
         | al2o3cr wrote:
         | > Imagine an Internet where accuracy was valued.
         | 
         | LOL even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-
         | full of assholes and cranks, the above archive is just the
         | _good_ parts.
        
         | chubot wrote:
         | It's not that rare for technical topics. People like Henry
         | Spencer participated in technical newsgroups, and yarchive
         | looks to be very technical.
         | 
         | This forum is good for such topics, and so are many subreddits.
         | If you want accuracy about other stuff like politics, good luck
         | :) It's worse now but it was still bad in the 90's.
        
         | robbedpeter wrote:
         | Gatekeeping against some minimum level of effort and technical
         | ability to connect, and a culture that celebrates accuracy and
         | the scientific method and honest discourse.
        
       | l33tbro wrote:
       | An interesting article that came out about Norman (and his alt-
       | right darling brother Curtis) recently that proposes he may have
       | been responsible for Yale law school bombing of 2003.
       | 
       | https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/t...
        
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