From: telcontar@duck.com   
      
   On 20.12.2022 at 05:29, Mike Easter scribbled:   
      
   > Aragorn wrote:   
   > >    
   > > our old friend Marek Novotny has requested that I'd say "hi" to the   
   > > people he knew while he was a Usenet resident.     
   >    
   > Interesting.  Tnx.   
   >    
   > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable     
   >    
   > Why in q-p?   
      
   I don't know, I haven't done anything to specify that.  I'm guessing   
   it must be a default setting in Claws Mail somewhere when I start a   
   new thread — which I rarely ever do.   
      
   I use KMail for email, but I use Claws Mail for Usenet.  I would have   
   preferred Pan, but Pan appears to be very unstable in Manjaro — it's a   
   package we pull in directly from Arch.  I've tried building it from   
   (Arch's) sources on my own computer, but the result was the same; it   
   crashes upon downloading the headers when freshly subscribing to a   
   newsgroup.     
      
   Claws isn't all that stable either, but it crashes far less.  And   
   Thunderbird is a horrible newsreader — it doesn't even recognize   
   crossposts, and its filtering abilities are ridiculously inadequate for   
   Usenet.   
      
   That all said, I myself am not all that active on Usenet anymore either,   
   and I've actually been pondering leaving it all behind, after 23 years.   
      
   Usenet isn't what it used to be anymore, and I've got far too many   
   other things on my mind than wading through pages and pages of unsnipped   
   quoted material all the time in order to then find only a single   
   original sentence at the bottom of any given post.     
      
   If there is no original content within the first 10 lines or so, then I   
   simply skip the post without reading it, and it was only about six   
   weeks to two months ago that I completely abandoned alt.os.linux —   
   where I had also been a resident for over two decades — because it was   
   being spammed to death by US-political bigots in a massive crossposted   
   thread, with my filters seemingly unable to keep it from my view.   
      
   Most of the people I've gotten to know over the years have moved on   
   toward greener pastures, so there isn't much of an incentive for me to   
   still be sticking around anyway.   
      
   As it is, at the moment I'm still here and mostly lurking, but I don't   
   know for how much longer. :-/   
      
   --    
   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
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