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List:       gimp-user
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-user] News list being retired
From:       Shlomi Fish <shlomif () shlomifish ! org>
Date:       2022-10-21 3:56:41
Message-ID: 20221021065641.21cef49c () shlomifish ! org
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Hi!

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:09:33 +0200
Jernej Simončič <#/&+-'={*_~}$.`?@eternallybored.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 20, 2022, 23:49:49, Joel Rees via gimp-user-list wrote:
> 
> > Ah, but it's not new and shiny and easy to check off the to-do lists.  
> 
> Main problem with usenet is the barrier to entry. Everybody has a browser,
> many people use e-mail (mostly only for work), but barely anybody still uses
> a newsreader (or even knows that they exist and what Usenet even is).
> 

There is "google groups": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups . 

"usenet is the old reddit" ;]

re "barrier to entry" see:
https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/#selling-for-stupider-ppl
 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road#A_metaphorical_%22Royal_Road%22_in_famous_quotations
                
.

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