alex
2015-08-15 16:23:17 UTC
This is part of the message I sent to Hal Womack via FB. He wanted to start an email conversation, but I did not go into that, because I think my point is perfectly clear and acceptable.
Obviously he doesn't care.
I keep wondering why he keeps using the same thread. I suspect there is a technical reason for that.
Hello Hal,
I would like to ask you to consider not using rec.games.go for your political messages, how funded your messages may be. Not because they are right (or wrong, or whatever), but because you are becoming part of a movement that is destroying Usenet. Please understand that how well founded your cause may be, you are drowning and misusing an already weakened communication medium for your - you must admit, selfish - purposes. Please understand that Usenet (rec.games.go, and most other newsgroups) are going down the drain because the average Joe - as well as pornographers - have found a cheap way to inundate the world with their messages, making it nearly impossible for others to find back what really matters for them, even if that is far below the importance of the subjects that you want to share with them, and resulting in those - very handy, and cheap - communication channels to being shut down. As a result, people have to regroup onto new, more expensive (and superficial, flashy, trendy) forms of communication such as Facebook but also many other discussion platforms (think of godiscussions.com). I think those new media will not stand time as Usenet did, and when they disappear, they will leave gaping wounds behind due to the tons of knowledge they amassed and will lose, because they didn't care to preserve for the long term.
Please understand my reasoning, please stop being selfish, stop using a resource that is dwindling. You can't change the world this way, I can guarantee you that, because people are on rec.games.go to discuss Go, not politics. Your _sole_ achievement is that you are wasting people's time, and resources. Is that what you want?
Thank you for your attention.
-alex-
Obviously he doesn't care.
I keep wondering why he keeps using the same thread. I suspect there is a technical reason for that.
Hello Hal,
I would like to ask you to consider not using rec.games.go for your political messages, how funded your messages may be. Not because they are right (or wrong, or whatever), but because you are becoming part of a movement that is destroying Usenet. Please understand that how well founded your cause may be, you are drowning and misusing an already weakened communication medium for your - you must admit, selfish - purposes. Please understand that Usenet (rec.games.go, and most other newsgroups) are going down the drain because the average Joe - as well as pornographers - have found a cheap way to inundate the world with their messages, making it nearly impossible for others to find back what really matters for them, even if that is far below the importance of the subjects that you want to share with them, and resulting in those - very handy, and cheap - communication channels to being shut down. As a result, people have to regroup onto new, more expensive (and superficial, flashy, trendy) forms of communication such as Facebook but also many other discussion platforms (think of godiscussions.com). I think those new media will not stand time as Usenet did, and when they disappear, they will leave gaping wounds behind due to the tons of knowledge they amassed and will lose, because they didn't care to preserve for the long term.
Please understand my reasoning, please stop being selfish, stop using a resource that is dwindling. You can't change the world this way, I can guarantee you that, because people are on rec.games.go to discuss Go, not politics. Your _sole_ achievement is that you are wasting people's time, and resources. Is that what you want?
Thank you for your attention.
-alex-