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Re:Ask HN: What is a good place to ask a technical question? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:49PM (#13173147)
> the reason NNTP is dead is not spam, it's everyone's obsession with trying to get rich building walled gardens

That's not how I remember the death of usenet.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good place to ask a technical question? by lh7 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:49AM (#13175309)
Just like spam is dealt with in email and walled gardens, it could have been dealt with in Usenet.
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Re:Ask HN: What is a good place to ask a technical question? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:02AM (#13175626)
Given the politics of usenet (both decentralized and rigid), I'm not at all sure about that. (And in addition to spam, which is just sort of there, there were people like weev who were actively trying to ruin people's experiences).
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