From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   D   wrote:   
   >On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:   
   >> One did have to do both, and even so, the volume was impossible to keep   
   >> up with if the group was at all active.   
      
   On Usenet, I often had very aggressive killfiles, not because I had anything   
   against the postings but just because I wasn't interested in another thread   
   about digital audio workstations again.  Some groups I would go into to find   
   that 90% of the traffic was taken out by the killfile.  But there was still   
   plenty, plenty to read.   
      
   >This is an interesting problem. How is it solved in modern social media?   
      
   Very poorly.  Most of those systems are just firehoses and they will   
   prioritize postings based upon their own (profit-oriented) notions of what   
   is most important, not the user's.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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