Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Is USENET stagnating? Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 16:00:04 GMT References: <40056@looking.on.ca> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 30 In-reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 29 Oct 89 02:15:26 GMT In article <40056@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > [ much deleted ] > > Now the object of this article is not to have everybody list some minor > new thing that's happened to USENET. I want to find out why we aren't > watching *major* changes, and why we aren't watching a lot of them. > And what we can do about it. gee brad, isnt it obvious? usenet has gone mainstream. many people who are on it dont care about the roots of usenet, namely computers, unix and networks. they just have a terminal in their dorm rooms or at work and there is a really great newsgroup called soc.culture.china, or rec.games.frp or whatever that they like to read. usenet has become a standard. standards dont change quickly. you could ask the same questions about why hasnt the "C" language or the telephone changed much. once you get a mass of people this large that is using something and expecting it to stay the same then you _cant_ change things. personally, i think this change is great. this means that most people arent using usenet because it's a neat new revolutionary networking concept, they are using it to get "real things" done. > Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 -wayne