mirrorbird (20:37:19)
my ISP dropped usenet around 2005 or so i think? i got an acct on Eternal-September.org but most people were fleeing to forums, i didn't keep it very long. the phpBB shit has had a long life

zoi (20:37:15)
do you know the difference between curtains and toilet paper?

Rapture (20:37:08)
usenet is emaillike? ahoki

mirrorbird (20:36:39)
especially good for the scammers because they don't even have to host the stuff...

mirrorbird (20:36:21)
zoi: lol i always felt bad for those people paying scamsites to get access to NNTP!

mirrorbird (20:36:06)
not sure when the 'hacker' culture switched from "censor nothing" to "censor everything", must have been around 2007. right i'll stop my plix

zoi (20:36:05)
apparently paying for access to those good binary-permissive news servers is still the #1 way to sail the high seas

mirrorbird (20:35:13)
but NO BINARY FILES PLEASE

mirrorbird (20:34:57)
but they were all anti-censorship longhair hacker nerds from space so it was ok

mirrorbird (20:34:39)
technically speaking: whatever sysadmin ran the local 'news' at your institution could decide to carry, or not carry, certain groups. (some were just trolling nonsense)

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