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I used to like RAME, but I couldn't stand waiting for my messages to get posted.


Part of the problem is that RAME is a usenet newsgroup, and usenet was never intended to scale to what it is today.

usenet already existed when I started using the arpanet and UUCP in 1985-1986, many years before the web started, and at that time a newsgroup was considered active if there were 50 posts in a day worldwide. If the total posts in all groups exceeded 5,000 in one day you went looking too see what was wrong.

At the time it was just called net.sex. There was no need for other sex* groups because there weren't enough post (there was no spam and almost no pictures).

Once Netscape appeared and the web exploded usenet no longer made much sense but has continued by sheer inertia and the fact that the are still a few geeks tinkering to keep it from collapsing.
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