We had killfiles back then. And clients that sorted/threaded conversations the way we wanted. And upstream operators that could often physically visit the offenders to tell them to knock if off. Those were the days …
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SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 week agoYes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.
We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.
mystik@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yea, but most of them were rather harmless, especially if you contacted the network administrator of the site he came from.