Russ Allbery's Tribute to Usenet
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beaq and papersky and others
My experience isn't entirely the same (I still hang out on a bit of Usenet that has some of the feel of the old days, and to me strangers posting to my journal are more important than random e-mail replies to a web page), but it resonates strongly.
Despite having been on LJ for years and finding a lot of people on LJ who are interesting (and enjoying finding out more via LJ about people I knew less well via Usenet), I've converted a lot more of my Usenet friends into in-person friends than I have my LJ friends. Usenet newsgroups I've hung out on frequently organized get-togethers...the same sort of thing doesn't happen via LJ as far as I've discovered.
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/community.html
beaq and papersky and othersMy experience isn't entirely the same (I still hang out on a bit of Usenet that has some of the feel of the old days, and to me strangers posting to my journal are more important than random e-mail replies to a web page), but it resonates strongly.
Despite having been on LJ for years and finding a lot of people on LJ who are interesting (and enjoying finding out more via LJ about people I knew less well via Usenet), I've converted a lot more of my Usenet friends into in-person friends than I have my LJ friends. Usenet newsgroups I've hung out on frequently organized get-togethers...the same sort of thing doesn't happen via LJ as far as I've discovered.
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/community.html
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Date: 22 Sep 2006 05:42 am (UTC)Besides the month-by-month download capability, there is also http://www.ljbook.com/ which will download the whole thing.
The distributed nature of the discussion on LJ is good insofar as it gets more people thinking about the topic but bad insofar as there is no way to automatically consolidate all posts discussing the topic. Some people make an effort to link to a variety of the posts but an automated solution would be best.