Werner Koch wrote:
because the new kids on the block seem to find NNTP archaic and weird
The reason why almost all real work moved from Usenet to MLs is due to the worse signal/noise ratio on the Usenet about 10 to 15 years ago.
Ah, yes. That's probably the most important reason; what I pointed out is secondary.
Fortunately we have web fori (and blog comments) today so that MLs keep on working well.
Yeah, it's nice that these cloacae gather almost all of the noise. Still, there are mailing lists/newsgroups (like gnu.misc.discuss) that are nearly impossible to follow without resorting to plonk...