On 23 Nov 2003 10:32:38 -0800, (edfan) wrote:

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.

It's no different today than it's always been. It'd been over a
decade since I just downloaded everything in any Usenet group. I pull
headers and download only those threads that I want to read. I rarely
ever see spam because it's obvious in the subject. Spam never gets
pulled.

It saves me time and frustration and is simple to do. Why everyone
doesn't do the same thing, I don't know.