Comment on Spring 2010 Meta Thread

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:11:38 GMT

slrn and trn had some nice features, but I think overall the benefit from the Usenet model is that it decoupled the presentation and user interaction, which was done by decentralized clients, with the storage and propagation, done by decentralized servers. The fact that the clients could evolve independently really let them become very good at what they did, rather than the "almost good enough" of most web discussions.

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