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Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers

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From Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null>
Subject Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers
References <10nrl84$29un5$1@dont-email.me> <10nsv1j$2qojb$1@dont-email.me>
Organization Order of the Eternal Bait
Message-ID <slrn10rudtl.odc1.tommix@devnull.org> (permalink)
Date 2026-03-22 00:28 +0000

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On 2026-02-27, highcrew <high.crew3868@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/26 9:39 AM, David Chmelik wrote:
>> I used to do 30 KB forum posts
>
> Yep. Checks out.
>
> Now I'll be frank, and I hope I'm not offensive: I hard hard time to
> make sense of your essay.  Sorry to say that.
>
> I'm quite sure it does not depend on my attention span. Just, sometimes 
> being short and to the point helps.f
>
>> What are your favourite desktop NNTP newsreader and IRC clients?
>
> I'm currently using Thunderbird. I'm not completely fond of it, but
> it is quick to set up, and I don't have too much free time in my hands.
>
> slrn if I'm on a terminal.
>
Slrn even if I am in a gui

>> I mostly just read aforementioned newsgroups, so in case I forget this but
>> you'd like a reply, feel free to ping me an email or seek me on IRC.
>
Ahh IRC, the good old days. Haven't been on IRC since who knows. I hear
it is mostly dead now.

-- 
Tom Mix

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Usenet and IRC changed.  Attention span & flamers David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-02-27 08:39 +0000
  Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers highcrew <high.crew3868@fastmail.com> - 2026-02-27 21:32 +0100
    Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-02-27 22:20 +0000
    Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2026-03-22 00:28 +0000
      Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers highcrew <high.crew3868@fastmail.com> - 2026-03-22 21:13 +0100
        Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers address@is.invalid (LucLan) - 2026-03-28 06:31 +0000
  Re: Usenet and IRC changed.  Attention span & flamers superkuh <superkuh@superkuh.com> - 2026-03-04 22:31 -0600
    Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers highcrew <high.crew3868@fastmail.com> - 2026-03-07 22:37 +0100

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