Subj : Re: Usenet
To   : Hustler
From : Dr. What
Date : Sat Jan 21 2023 16:27:00

-=> Hustler wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 Hu>  Usenet, Newsgroups NNTP whatever you want to call them always had too
 Hu> many groups. Even in the early 90's there was over 1200 of them. It
 Hu> would take an hour to DL them at 2400 baud.

Ya, that was the other problem.  Even if you didn't have to download all of
them, if you were on a system that had Usenet available, it would take forever
at those speeds to read through all the messages.

Often time, I would just mark them as read and move on, especially the (sadly
too often) flamewars that broke out.  And after a while, I'd just drop the
group from my list.


.... I may look busy, but I'm just confused!
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