Re: potus@lists.debian.org
Sir,
Are you suggesting that the usenet be re-invented? :-(
Usenet is a decentralized e-mail based network system of communication
conceived around the time that ARPANET was initiated ('70s) that has no
central administrative body, and thus cannot be suppressed. Because of this
inherent inability to monetize it, ISPs dropped bundling usenet as part of
their subscriber services about a decade ago, similar to Verizon's dropping
Yahoo Groups December 15, 2020. You may be familiar with Google Groups that
carries a free usenet feed.
Today, usenet still exists albeit a skeleton of its former incarnation.
There are free News Network Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers available such
as nntp.aioe.org and free-usenet.com, and paid servers like
news.giganews.com. There are free news reading clients such as Thunderbird
and Forte Agent, and the venerable rn for *nix platforms.
So, what you seek has existed for decades, and is still viable as a forum
for free speech as it always has been.
Here's a clue: https://www.google.com/search?client=none&q=usenet
Best regards,
Larry Dighera
On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 6:27:08 AM PST, Marek Mosiewicz
<marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> wrote:
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>In case commercial social networks will not protect freedom of speach [sic]
>there is always option to use mailing lists.
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>In fact I can imagine Twitter or Facebook as web based mail client
>which aggregates urls for messages publicated on anywhere in Web.
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>Everbody who observes somebody will receive email with link to message.
>Likes and comments are also mails (the can even be signed).
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>Webserver which serves given message will receive like and comment
>mails and presnet it. Yo can see source of mail e.g for like AND verify
>that like was realy given by ckecking GPG signature of sender.
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>
>Cheers,
> Marek Mosiewicz
> http://marekmosiewicz.pl
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