usenet nostalgia

[Mike Loewen]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Richard wrote:

> Usenet had the same proportion of asshole users back then, just that
> they were fewer in absolute number because the size of the total users
> was less.  I dealt with plenty of asshole users on usenet, even in
> 1988.

    And before that time, the BBS systems had pretty much the same types of 
users.  People write things from behind a screen which they would never 
say to your face.


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