Dissolving Choke Points

[Roy M. Silvernail]

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In list.cypherpunks, gbroiles at netbox.com writes:

> My mention of Usenet was somewhat tongue-in-cheek; I don't know if I'd bother
> with the list if it were moved to (or gated with) Usenet, as Usenet has
> become for the most part 100+ Mb/day of uselessness.

An obvious point.  But you go on to say...

> The good side I see to a move to Usenet is that it lets people use the
> comparatively better tools for managing messages
[...]

FWIW, I gate all my subscribed mailing lists to local newsgroups because
my newsreading tools are much better than my mailreading tools.

> The down side is that Usenet is more or less a sewer these days, and some of
> it's bound to spill over.

The unfiltered list already had spammers and flamers.  Would you expect
nore sewage, different sewage or a combination?
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