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Subject: Re: Netnews: The Origin Story
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:42:43 +0100
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:

> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> D <nospam@example.net> 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.