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- Subject: Re: A Paper on the Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
- Message-ID: <Geoff.5xop@equinox.gen.nz>
- From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
- Date: 20 Dec 92 12:13:06 +1200
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- mathew (mathew@mantis.co.uk) wrote:
-
- >There are some major rough edges to Usenet. There are a hundred
- improvements
- >we could easily make to the system. You can discuss these improvements,
- you
- >can even write specifications for them, but they won't happen. The only
- way
- >you can get something to happen is to write the spec, write the software,
- >write an install script, and hand people the whole thing on a plate so that
- >they only have to type a couple of words and hit return.
-
- >Any change which involves Usenet system administrators doing more than
- typing
- >a couple of words and hitting return simply will not happen. Unless, of
- >course, it means they have substantially less work to do administering
- their
- >news system as a result of the change.
-
- >That's what I mean by the main force behind Usenet being apathy.
-
- I think it has less to do with apathy than it has to do with inertia.
- Anything involving a software change will take a long time simply because of
- the huge diversity of the systems out there in the net at large.
-
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