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Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet
A Twitter thread on trolls brought up mention of trolls on Usenet . The reason they were so hard to deal with, even then, has some lessons for today; besides, the history is interesting. (Aside: this is, I think, the first longish thing I’ve ever written about any of the early design decisions for Usenet. I should…
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History & Retro ComputingNetworking & Internet2018
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 27, 2018 | Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet by fanf2 | 170 | 54 |
