| Felix Stalder on 21 Feb 2001 06:21:48 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Usenet archives sold |
I really have a hard time with this discussion which seems about knee-jerk complaining. The fact is that for the last 5 years, Dejanews was the only one interested enough in Usenet as a whole to archive it. Without them, there would be no archive whatever. Everyone who is now complaining about Dejanews selling their archive is really saying that they haven't cared enough to organize an archive themselves but think now, from the comfort of their home computer, that Dejanews/Google should not act as the businesses they always said they are but as a community service nobody was ever willing to put the work in. Fact is, everybody could have archived Usenet but nobody really cared. Complaining now seems not only futile but also pretty ludicrous. Felix --------------------++----- Les faits sont faits. http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/~stalder _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold