From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:51:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff71816f-2f07-56dd-c25c-80f5bd550bb3@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220201022314.GW25875@mcvoy.com>
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On 1/31/22 7:23 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> So I used to be very active on Usenet, comp.arch and comp.unix.wizards
> were my jam. soc.singles, yeah, hung out there and I was not well
> loved for my views.
I'll check out the comp.* groups and let you know what I see.
> I don't think I've been on usenet since the 1990's because it just
> turned into a cesspool of crap. Sort of Facebook but text.
It seems to be a lot better as the number of people went down, there
were fewer people for the trolls to feed on.
> Are you saying there is still some decent value in Usenet or are you
> hanging on just because?
Yes, I have some good conversations in multiple newsgroups on the weekly
basis and probably many on the monthly basis.
My Thunderbird newsrc file has 427 lines of subscribed groups. I see
worth while articles in 20-200 of them a day.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 0:36 Rich Morin
2022-01-27 1:55 ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2022-01-29 1:59 ` Charles Anthony
2022-01-29 2:24 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2022-01-29 2:36 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-29 8:48 ` Andy Kosela
2022-01-29 17:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-29 17:20 ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-01 2:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01 2:21 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-01 2:31 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01 2:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2022-02-01 18:19 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 18:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-01 12:45 ` Blake McBride
2022-01-29 17:20 ` Blake McBride
2022-01-30 1:20 ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-30 2:10 ` Will Senn
2022-01-27 2:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-01-27 2:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-27 21:11 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-01-27 2:52 Norman Wilson
2022-01-27 23:20 ` Nemo Nusquam
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