• Could Usenet become a public company like Reddit?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 19:54:54 2026
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    Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
    that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
    of going IPO like Reddit? EfOe
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  • From onion@onion@anon.invalid (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_=D6n!on?=) to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 13:12:37 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
    that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
    of going IPO like Reddit? ?


    You're very silly, one day you'll really embarrass yourself.
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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 08:22:31 2026
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    Verily, in article <111tmee$af3v$3@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
    that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
    of going IPO like Reddit? ?

    How would the company come to own it? That would be sort of like owning conversation.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 20:24:29 2026
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    On 6/29/2026 8:12 PM, Mr |un!on wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
    that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
    of going IPO like Reddit? ?


    You're very silly, one day you'll really embarrass yourself.
    Sometimes silly ideas are just great business.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 20:25:43 2026
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    On 6/29/2026 8:22 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <111tmee$af3v$3@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    Who wanna setup a tiny, tiny busines company
    that owns and manages Usenet, with the goal
    of going IPO like Reddit? ?

    How would the company come to own it?
    That would be sort of like owning
    conversation.


    Why did Facebook and Reddit go IPO?
    They are also "sort of like owning
    conversation". :)
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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 09:02:13 2026
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    Verily, in article <111to87$b9cu$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    How would the company come to own it?
    That would be sort of like owning
    conversation.


    Why did Facebook and Reddit go IPO?
    They are also "sort of like owning
    conversation". :)

    Those are specific web sites. You're talking about someone owning a
    protocol.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers on Mon Jun 29 23:01:00 2026
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    On 6/29/2026 9:02 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <111to87$b9cu$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    How would the company come to own it?
    That would be sort of like owning
    conversation.


    Why did Facebook and Reddit go IPO?
    They are also "sort of like owning
    conversation". :)

    Those are specific web sites. You're
    talking about someone owning a
    protocol.


    As long as there are news-reader apps in app
    stores of Android and iOS, they can access
    Usenet. They can say/type whatever they
    wanna say/type as in Reddit & FB. ;)
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Mon Jun 29 23:04:30 2026
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    On 6/29/2026 8:12 PM, Mr |un!on wrote:

    You're very silly, one day you'll really embarrass yourself.



    Also, doing silly little things like
    IPO-ing Usenet is an exciting yet
    interesting challenge!

    Don't we all got bored somtimes? :)

    Anyone wanna challenge this?

    How about Mr. Elon Musk? Did he post
    in alt.fan.nikola-tesla under nick-
    names? Meow....
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers on Mon Jun 29 23:07:09 2026
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    On 6/29/2026 11:01 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    As long as there are news-reader apps in app
    stores of Android and iOS, they can access
    Usenet. They can say/type whatever they
    wanna say/type as in Reddit & FB. ;)


    BTW, it's called "texting", right? ;)
    Usenet is also about texting, in
    true plain-TEXT!!

    TEXTINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/texting>

    Text messaging - Wikipedia
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging>
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