"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:07:38 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 5:01:55 AM UTC-10, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>> > On 7/30/2014 11:46 AM, sf wrote:
>> >
>>> With no responsible party, there's no interest in
>> >
>> > doing anything to change the Usenet experience. And *that*, boys and
>> >
>> > girls, is the real reason most ISPs dumped Usenet support. Unlike the
>> >
>> > WWW, Usenet makes no money for anyone. Better to push people onto the
>> >
>> > Web, where they can pay for their experiences via advertising and data
>> >
>> > scraping.
>>
>> This certainly sounds reasonable and true. Hopefully, the boys and girls
>> can live with that reality.
>
> People are going to web forums because they are moderated and the crap
> that goes on here is deleted there.

I'm okay with some moderation but... You can really get mods who overstep
their bounds IMO and that I don't like. Plus these days you usually have to
join to post on forums. Just too hard to get rid of all the spam if they
don't do otherwise.