On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:34:51 -0500, in rec.bicycles.tech "Edward
Dolan said:Usenet will soon be as dead as a door nail. It has no redeeming features
whatsoever. It only existed for as long as it did because it was based on a
new technology that fascinated everyone.
Actually, it is based on a protocol that predates TCP/IP. By Internet
standards, it's ancient... its roots are in the earliest propagation
algorithms of MILNET; it was fully functional by around '78 or so.
Far from being "a new technology that fascinat[s] everyone", Usenet is
an anachronism!
And, yes, Ed... you're free to say anything you want to say. The
problem is that so is everyone else. It is also true that you must
put up with a shower of morons. Get over it. I have found that
whining about it doesn't change a thing.
Jones
Say, do you wear Spandex, Ed? Someone gave me an expensive cycling
outfit that they had "outgrown" (at the waist); I put it on and
decided that I couldn't wear it in public with a straight face. I
tell you, sir, a self respecting [censored] wouldn't be caught in some of
those outfits! What do you think?