Re: We also serve, who write and boost
candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups |
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| Organization | the-candyden-of-code |
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Stefan Ram <[email protected]> wrote at 15:21 this Saturday (GMT): > [email protected] (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