Usenet as "Social Networking" (was: I guess this thing is not on,damn!)
Sqwertz wrote:
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> In Usenet it's kinda backwards. You invite everybody into your
> on-line social world all at once. Any unknown person can join your
> world at any time without your consent. But then you explicitly pick
> out individuals and tell them to **** off and die and exclude them VIA
> your killfiles.
Put more simply, instead of a friends list you have
an enemies list.
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