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[Aahz]

In article <87r5kj8zmk.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney  <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
>So you say. For the interface to be "better" it needs to keep the good
>features of the existing interface. I include among the good features of
>Usenet:
>
>  [...]

You skipped over the crowning glories of Usenet:

* Threaded messaging (more robust than mailing lists, generally speaking,
because the behavior of the References: header is better defined, and
References: includes more than just the immediate parent)

* Marking articles as read does *not* delete them; they are still
available for walking through the threading, but by default you never
see them again

NOTHING else has these, thirty years later.
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