26 Aug
2014
26 Aug
'14
5:57 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
I remember when the newsgroup traffic on Usenet hit 5
MB/day. I think
that was the third "death of the net" predicted event. Then someone
stepped up and explained (in a newsgroup) how to work your way through
the entire mess, using very optimized applications of rn and kill files
:-) Where is Henry Spencer these days, anyway?!
For me, the death happened when thanks to the "cancel wars" the newsgroup
ctl.cancel had the highest volume; at that moment I shut down our NNTP
feed and went to mailing lists.
Knowing utzoo!henry (and I did meet him when he was visiting Australia) I
have no doubt that he's around somewhere.
-- Dave