From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   99.9999% of usenet is troll farm, where "discussion" is almost entirely   
   chatbots chatting/chattering coactively, filling active newsgroups with   
   their "nothing burger" some thirty-two years under trollfarm occupation,   
   withal, some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:   
      
   (using Tor Browser 15.0.5)   
   https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/   
   >Index of /usenet/CONFIG   
   >[ICO]  Name  Last modified   Size  Description   
   >[ ]    Parent Directory   
   >[TXT]  HIERARCHY-NOTES	2010-01-18 03:50  27K   
   >[DIR]  LOGS/           2026-02-01 01:00  -   
   >[TXT]  README          2019-01-07 02:58  14K   
   >[ ]    active          2026-02-02 13:00  2.0M   
   >https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active *   
   >[ ]    active.bz2      2026-02-02 13:00  264K   
   >[ ]    active.gz       2026-02-02 13:00  292K   
   >[TXT]  control.ctl     2023-08-05 15:57  104K   
   >[ ]    newsgroups      2026-02-02 13:00  2.3M   
   >[ ]    newsgroups.bz2  2026-02-02 13:00  620K   
   >[ ]    newsgroups.gz   2026-02-02 13:00  685K   
   >...   
      
   *(45187 lines / 2172291 bytes / 2.17 megabytes) . . .   
      
   >https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active   
   >aaa.inu-chan 0000000000 0000000001 m   
   >...   
      
   >...   
   >zippo.spamhippo.top100 0000000000 0000000001 m   
   [end quoted plain text]   
      
   *.*   
     39370 y   
      5811 m   
         6 n   
     _______   
     45187 total   
      
      
   alt.binaries.*   
      2569 y   
        50 m   
     _______   
      2619 b   
      
   unmoderated usenet newsgroups are still useful as the public repository   
   for lurkers and researchers, to that extent kudos to nntp server admins   
   for collectively sustaining this internet-accessible plain text library,   
   but any conversation between non-robot participants is a million-to-one   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)