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Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.*

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Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) wrote or quoted:
>>That is, indeed, what happened. I did not make that up. I've
>>had two people I tried to get interested tell me exactly that
>>after they gave it a try for a bit.
> 
>   There have not been any discussions in comp.lang.haskell for
>   years. I posted to it recently, and immediately got two good
>   answers. It just worked, like that Latin dictionary that rests
>   on your shelf for years, but when you then need to look up a
>   Latin word one day, it's there. No need to throw it away.

Usually I don't have such luck posting to dead groups. However I
still often prefer it to posting in broad-topic groups, or those
plagued by OT discussion, where I'm then compelled to wade through
mountains of irrelevent responses only to find nobody was any help
there either. This pruning idea promises to remove my option of
posting to the "dead" niche groups, in which case I often wouldn't
post new topics to the busy groups I'm already avoiding, I just
wouldn't post at all. It'd make Usenet even more dead for me.

>   I also remember how Lars asked a Perl question on 2026-01-14 
>   off topic in comp.os.linux.misc:

And there's a prime example of a group where I'm skipping most of
the posts, probably including plenty of stuff I'm interested
in, because it's too hard to wade through the OT stuff I don't
give a hoot about.

Apparantly that's the Usenet some people want, but why rob me of
the quieter corners of Usenet just to theoretically improve the
looks of a group list? Plus that list is mostly padded out by alt.*
etc. groups anyway?

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Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-15 15:48 +0000
  Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-05-15 16:10 +0000
    Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-15 16:36 +0000
    Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-16 11:11 +0000
      Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-16 11:52 +0000
      Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-17 09:24 +1000

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