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[–] frezik@midwest.social 201 points 1 year ago (117 children)

One of the things that contributed to the downfall of USENET was when people worked out how to post binary files, encoded as multi-part blocks of ASCII text. It still has piracy problems but you can just ignore that stuff.

Ignore all the software pirates over there. Yes, sir, the ones sitting at the free bar full of top shelf liquor with strippers on each side. Yup, better not go over there.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First and second rules exist for a reason.

[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 11 points 1 year ago

These two rules caused Usenet to be abandoned by people who were once passionate about being part of the community, and instead taken over by spammers and bots.

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