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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
m k:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2023, 09:34:00 pm ---We had usenet. Nothing can compare (favourably) with that ;)
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Fido?
I never found any usenet link machines, but it wasn't that big thing back then, and since the company wasn't exactly very small some internal activities were also available.
Later I remember threatened to sue when ISP, out of the blue and in the middle of contract, told they'll drop news, maybe some other things were also emerged.
Then contract ended and NNTP was gone, others didn't support the protocol either, few independent addresses were available but access was limited.
EEVblog:
On today's livestream Adams finally floated the idea that he should put Dilbert on Twitter Subscriptions for $2/month
I wonder who told him that months ago ;D
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2023, 11:09:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2023, 11:00:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 23, 2023, 10:20:25 pm ---Usenet is still there.
But yes, the most popular groups are now infested with spam. There still are a few more niche groups that work well, though.
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Comp.arch should still be read by everybody. It is an excellent source with a high SNR.
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Yes, this one is good with almost no spam.
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There's nothing that I would term "spam" there; the (highly respected) moderator traps out stupidity and anything grossly off-topic. Having said that, there are sometimes informed and pointed and brief discussions of a post/topic.
Fortunately we don't have to rely on gurgle groups to find posts back to 1st August 1985; they are all archived and searchable (using gurgle, naturally) at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ It also has an RSS feed.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 11, 2023, 06:52:35 am ---On today's livestream Adams finally floated the idea that he should put Dilbert on Twitter Subscriptions for $2/month
I wonder who told him that months ago ;D
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Still wouldn't pay.
Something has to be both visible and good for me to release my credit card information. Since he's changed recently and appears to be veering towards a libertarian[1] agenda, I no longer believe his invisible stuff is sufficiently good. I'm not going to pay to have any politics thrust in my face.
[1] politics alert: we've had enough of that in the UK (witness the recent local elections), and libertarianism appears to be in the process of being rebranded to "national conservatism". Somewhere other than here I'd like to see a traditional compare-and-contrast discussion of the dfferences between "national conservatism" and "national socialism".
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 11, 2023, 08:20:32 am ---I'm not going to pay to have any politics thrust in my face.
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(his) Politics have always been inserted into Dilbert. It's always regularly had an angle of being a piss-take of current politics, be it corporate, social, government, media etc.
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