death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

[Kenneth Tilton]

Xah Lee wrote:
> • Death of Newsgroups
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> Death of Newsgroups
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> Xah Lee, 2010-07-13
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> Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See:
> microsoft.public.windows.powershell.
> 
> I use comp.lang.lisp, comp.emacs since about 1999. Have been using
> them pretty much on a weekly basis in the past 10 years. Starting
> about 2007, the traffic has been increasingly filled with spam, and
> the posters are always just the 20 or 30 known faces. I think perhaps
> maybe no more than 100 different posters a year. Since this year or
> last year, they are some 95% spam.

Forest. Trees. Please note order.

Case in point: twelve weeks ago His Timness mentioned this on 
comp.lang.lisp;

   http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/

Now we have this, a port of a desktop app to the web:

   http://teamalgebra.com/

It happened fast because http://qooxdoo.org/lets me program the Web 
without bothering with HTML and CSS and browser variation as if I were 
using a framework like GTk.

I learned about qooxdoo... on comp.lang.lisp.

The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it.

kt

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