Paging Dr. Memory. Dr. Memory, please report to your designated undisclosed location.

[elfs]

Hey Nathan, remember the old saying, "Those who do not remember Usenet are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly"?

Meet Salmon.

Arrrgh.

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I'd hope I'd remember that saying, since I'm pretty sure I coined it. :)

In re Salmon: huh. On the one hand: oh god, using thirty shitty layers of RSS+XML+HTTP to half-solve a problem that NNTP kicked out of the park 25+ years ago with 10% of the over head. On the other hand, at least they seem to have put some thought toward the authentication problem, which is nice. But on the gripping hand, they're apparently confusing authentication with abuse prevention, to which I can only say: h0 h0 h0 h0 h0.

I should probably sit down and actually read the spec. Oh god.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

OH GOD WHAT'S THIS HOOK DOING IN MY MOUTH?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

ROFL. I know the feeling.