Thread: Is Usnet Dying?
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Larry Blanchard
 
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Default Is Usnet Dying?

In article ,
says...

I think so many newsgroups have been taken over by spammers and
hatemongers, it's tough to waste so much time wading through the muck.
This newsgroup has been better than average but there are dozens of
others that have succumbed. Everywhere you go, it's porn, spam, get
rich quick schemes, JUNK. It's not hard to understand why users have
been leaving in droves.

But it's so simple to filter out most of that. Assuming your newsserver
doesn't. The one from Berlin (uni-berlin.de) gets rid of most of the
porn stuff, leaving me to filter out the trolls. Not difficult.


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