15 Jul
2007
15 Jul
'07
7:30 p.m.
Malcolm Wallace said that Usenet is pretty bad these days. Lutz Donnerhacke disagreed. Living as near the Antarctic as I do, I find that the Internet works fine, e-mail is just great, but NNTP is effectively dead. I stopped reading net news (with sadness and reluctance) about eight years ago when I found that I couldn't rely on getting comp.arch any more. It was also sad to say goodbye to comp.lang.functional, but that hadn't been heard from for some time either. I was very happy to discover Haskell-Café and would be sorry to lose it, as I would if it went over to NNTP.