Re: We also serve, who write and boost

candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups
Organization the-candyden-of-code
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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