Wednesday, March 30, 2005

The saga of USENET: The insanity continues

This is beautiful. A thread about acquaintance spam spiraled off into a furious bout of invective and harsh words. It amazes me that people who should know better don't. Now it may be true that somebody "started it", but at least they had the tact and intelligence to back off and not involve themselves in the comment war that ensued.

I just found it hilarious that a supposedly high signal/noise ratio medium (blogging/RSS/contemporary "collaboration" tools) can be reduced to a tangled USENET thread in less time than it takes to click on the "BlogThis" bookmarklet in your toolbar.

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