Re: tlug: MPT vs. English

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:

> 
> On 08-Oct-98 Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:
> > 
> >>later would be simple; I don't think netnews is very widely used in
> >>Japan yet, though. Maybe after the MPT's latest proposal gets put
> >>into place and everything that enters Japan's net is translated into
> >>Nihongo before any user sees it (HAH!!).....
> > 
> > No!  Did they really propose that?!  (snortgigglechokechoke)
> 
> Right there in the latest Computing Japan (October 98), there is a short
> blurb on this. As I look at it, the note does only mention web sites and
> email. But the MPT is looking into implementing this by the year 2000...
>  
> > Quite a few of our users do "read" newsgroups (alt.binaries groups are
> > popular), and the Japanese newsgroups that are out there do seem fairly well
> > used.  I don't know what percentage of our members are reading news, but I
> > know we added several new news servers this year to keep up with things.
> 
> Um, they are "reading" binaries??? ;->  

Newsgroups are just vehicles for spam mail, mostly X rated spam mail.  I
haven't seen anything of any meaningful content on any of the groups in
quite some time.  Usenet seems to be practically unusable now that it's
becoming so over-spammed.  Maybe it should be renamed, "AbuseNet" ?

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