Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!feeder1.feed.ams11.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!peer05.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx06.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.irc From: Tom Mix Subject: Re: Usenet and IRC changed. Attention span & flamers References: <10nrl84$29un5$1@dont-email.me> <10nsv1j$2qojb$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: tom-mixmin@protonmail.com Organization: Order of the Eternal Bait X-No-Archive: yes X-Troll-Infestation-Level: Maximum X-Bridge-Residency: Confirmed X-Bait-Quality: Extra Stinky X-Obsession-Factor: 11/10 X-Reply-Counter: Broken X-Spanked-Hard: Jen Dershmender, Adam H. Kerman, Bill Stickers, Praetor Mandrake X-Sockpuppet-Count: Infinite X-Flamewar-Readiness: Locked & Loaded X-Thread-Necromancy: Active X-Nonsense-Quotient: Overflow X-Meme-Residue: Heavy User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Message-ID: Lines: 29 X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:28:37 UTC Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:28:37 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 2007 Xref: csiph.com alt.irc:127 On 2026-02-27, highcrew 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