Tim via users writes:
Joking aside, newsgroups were far superior to mailing lists and forums
Newsgroups never crossed my mind, as part of the great mailing lists vs. forums discussions. But I have to agree with this, but only slightly.
(cached, no email addresses needed to post that would be exposed to spammers,
That's doable with E-mail too (not exposing email addresses), I'd say. Anyone can have as many throwaway email addresses as they want.
better filtering options [follow and ignore],
Mailing lists do a far better job of weeding out the crap simply by the virtue of requiring a subscription to go through, first, then whitelisting the subscriber addresses. In the hey-days of Usenet the spam cancelbots worked reasonably well, but it wasn't perfect.
hosted by someone else so you didn't need to host servers, etc).
In case of E-mail, tnese days most of the great unwashed have their E-mail infrastructure hosted by a third party, a large E-mail provider.
The biggest advantage to newsgroups is privacy.
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