* <<G17.1420>> USENET
Still a ghost town.

Usenet could be fairly interesting again if it could be pulled away
from its crusty, old, plain-text purist user-base.  That's probably
not terribly likely, but it's a fun thought: Usenet with semantically
structured documents, attached images, hyperlinks, etc.  All that's
needed is a change of media-type for the message body.  Of course,
that could go horribly wrong, and we would probably see Usenet make
the same transformation that the web made, away from text and toward
images and design, and that would pretty-much destroy what makes
Usenet interesting in the first place.

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