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    From Paul W. Schleck@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 15:11:26 2025
    XPost: alt.culture.usenet, news.groups

    "There was a time when I would read the whole internet, every day.

    Oh, not all of it. But when Usenet - the internet's first widescale
    social media - was bridged into Fidonet (a network of dial-up BBSes), my
    local free bulletin board system began to import several hundred Usenet newsgroups, updating several times per day. I would dial up to this BBS
    and read my way through all of the new posts on these groups.

    Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more
    newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible."

    https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/probably/

    --
    Paul W. Schleck
    pschleck@panix.com

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  • From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to Paul W. Schleck on Sat Jun 28 15:21:52 2025
    XPost: alt.culture.usenet, news.groups

    pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) wrote or quoted:
    Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more
    newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible."

    . . . and then, it got possible again . . .

    Honestly, there are so few new posts popping up on de.-Usenet
    these days that I have a reading mode where I just check out
    all the latest messages from /every/ de.-newsgroup, all mixed
    together and then sorted by time.

    Twenty years back, I'd knock out some stuff around the house,
    hop online to answer a few questions in the programming groups,
    then circle back to my chores. Now those groups are either
    ghost towns or stuck in a rut with the same handful of folks
    rehashing the same old lines.

    So, what am I supposed to do with my chores now? It's gotten tough!

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Stefan Ram on Mon Jun 30 04:50:05 2025
    XPost: alt.culture.usenet, news.groups

    Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote at 15:21 this Saturday (GMT):
    pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) wrote or quoted:
    Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more
    newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible."

    . . . and then, it got possible again . . .

    Honestly, there are so few new posts popping up on de.-Usenet
    these days that I have a reading mode where I just check out
    all the latest messages from /every/ de.-newsgroup, all mixed
    together and then sorted by time.

    Twenty years back, I'd knock out some stuff around the house,
    hop online to answer a few questions in the programming groups,
    then circle back to my chores. Now those groups are either
    ghost towns or stuck in a rut with the same handful of folks
    rehashing the same old lines.

    So, what am I supposed to do with my chores now? It's gotten tough!


    Even with the low turnout, I still manage to let messages pile up and it
    took a few hours to read all of them. It got to the point I had to set
    up slrnpull to only save 15 messages per newsgroup a day, so it didn't
    get out of control as fast.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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