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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: A Paper on the Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
- In-Reply-To: chuq@Apple.COM (Eeyore's Evil Twin)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.105329.3764@nntp.hut.fi>
- Keywords: Usenet Pioneers Democracy News grass roots
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi
- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Dec9.055102.27053@news.columbia.edu> <2B262525.2DD7@tct.com> <Bz27LJ.D2C@sci.kun.nl> <75525@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:53:29 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <75525@apple.apple.COM>, chuq@Apple (Eeyore's Evil Twin) writes:
- >hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
- >
- >> We all know the Death of Usenet is imminent.
- >
- >And has been since 1981.
- >
- >>Film at 11.
- >
- >If it survives that long.
- >
- >chuq (one of these days, of course, we'll be right, too)
-
- Only the U.S. part will die, but the U.S. people will think that it's
- all dead. Only some wild rumors will propagate, partly by the heroic
- soldiers who dare to visit the Great Satanic Unknown to defend the One
- True God's Way of Vaterland - and partly by a few oldtimers who will
- remember how once upon a time there was a way to freely communicate
- with the Great Unknown which had intelligent life and nice people
- similar to the ones in Vaterland. In vain the oldtimers will try to
- convince others that once the people behind the oceans were nice and
- it was good to share one's ideas with them, but no one under 50 will
- believe them and if they keep talking too much about it they'll find
- themselves in a camp, in grave, or in a mental hospital.
-
- //Jyrki
-