On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:30:52PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > How much time do you spend in usenet/newsreaders (or related) activity? > [ feel free to translate this to the question I meant to ask ] ;-)
I started reading usenet about 1994, just before the AOL invasion. I still check it nearly every day. Mostly rec.music.classical.recordings, and I check a few others but rarely post to them. Google groups is really inadequate as you can't killfile the few chuckleheads that litter the groups with noise. I still use slrn for this, as I find a text newsreader still the most efficient way to read text groups. I also admit using it a lot to download movies and tv shows. I use binsearch.info/hellanzb for this. I don't even watch TV anymore, I just download the few shows I like (they are, of course, ad free). This is probably why they want to shut usenet down. Dave Cook -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
