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+category:
+    - computer
+title: Intertwingling
+date: 2005-05-21T16:58:00
+---
+
+Many Internet seers (e.g., `Nancy McGough`_) prophesied that the future
+of messaging lies in intertwingling of all messaging platforms into one
+stream of messages transported by different means.
+
+I have thought about cross-posting a message to two groups at
+`Gmane.org`_ and I had to think how is Followup-To: header translated
+into email lists. I have no idea—it is probably dropped without
+replacement. However, during that moment I could clearly see how
+newsgroups are actually very much different from email lists (where I
+spent most of my discussion so far). It seems to me that with good use
+of Followup-To: header and cross-posting the thread is actually much
+more independent from the newsgroup were it originated and being
+off-topic is much more rude than in email lists, where because of
+email’s inferior capabilities there is not much to do when the
+discussion genuinely shifts to the topic which is not related to the
+main topic of the list.
+
+So when the intertwingling comes (and it is already coming) then only
+the lowest common denominator will remain and everybody will get poorer.
+Oh well.
+
+.. _`Nancy McGough`:
+    http://deflexion.com/messaging/
+.. _`Gmane.org`:
+    http://www.gmane.org