Once upon a time Rexx Sardoni (not really) shaped the electrons to say...
> * I think YahooGroups are an abomination and an affront to usenet
> newsgroups and only serve to balkanize the internet. And the interface
> is just as bad as i feared it might be. WTF?

Nice post overall.

As for this point, remember, before USEnet there were mailing lists.
Mailing lists and USEnet thrived alongside each other for many years.
Mailing lists and USEnet serve different purposes, one can't really
replace the other.

Yahoo groups are just webified mailing lists. I never use the web
interface - I'm typing this in emacs right now, running from within
mutt, which is running on a FreeBSD box that I'm SSH'd into. :-) You
can treat Yahoo groups just like mailing lists, and never, ever use
the web interface.

The only time I use it are for the groups I help maintain, to approve
posts, etc.

Having been a mailing list admin on and off since 1994, it is
definitely easier to manage a Yahoo group/list than Majordomo was.
And even a bit easier than Mailman.

I've been online since 1989, and I've seen a lot of 'social forums'
rise and fall over the years. Mailing lists seem to have some staying
power in one form or another.

I still use USEnet, and I'm active on a lot of web forums these days
of course.

-MZ
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