begin quoting David M. Cook as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:34:53PM -0700: > 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
The AOL invasion was september 1993. > 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. Killfiles are important for usenet, or indeed, any forum. > 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. It's just another P2P file-sharing network to those in power. -- I was introduced to usenet with the instructions: 'read only until you get it.' Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
