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   On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:   
      
   > Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >> D  wrote:   
   >>> This is the truth!  As a thought experiment I sometimes think about   
   >>> how I would be able to handle usenet if it had 10x the nr of posts,   
   >>> and I don't think I would.   
   >>>   
   >>> It would have to be either a laser focus on a very small nr of   
   >>> groups, or aggressive filtering of the subject lines.   
   >>   
   >> True, although in desperation for content my focus has expanded to   
   >> lurking in groups I'm barely interested in.  I might not mind needing   
   >> to narrow my focus back a lot.   
   >   
   > In it's heyday in the mid 90's, the posting rate was such that in   
   > popular groups, one could spend hours reading, clearing the rest of a   
   > thread that went off the rails, marking all as read on entirely   
   > uninteresting threads, and managing to clear what seemed like a   
   > thousand or two posts.  And then, at the end of it all, if one had   
   > managed to sift through, say, 1000 posts, finding that the group had   
   > received 1250 new posts during the time one had cleared the 1000.   
   >   
   > The rate of the firehose of posts is hard to imagine if one wasn't   
   > active on usenet at the time to witness it in person.   
      
   I do have vague memories from around 1995-1997 of toying with usenet and   
   almost getting crushed by the content.   
      
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