Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

[Mark Rousell <mark.rousell@signal100.com>]

On 28/08/2018 15:27, Michael Stone wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 02:52:36PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote:

Except for perhaps hacked servers in some cases, FTP never did have much of a
part to play in binaries distribution from what I could see.

I guess you didn't use debian? Or are we only talking about the illegal content that I thought wasn't the reason usenet is important. It's so hard to keep track of what the point was supposed to be.

Oops, I meant to reply to this part.

Lots of people download files from FTP servers but that's a wholly different culture and use case than Usenet provided for in practice. And who said that binaries (whether legal or illegal) was not a big part of Usenet at its height? I certainly said no such thing and nor did you, as far as I could see.

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Mark Rousell