[LINK] Who uses dedicated and individual software for web/rss/mail?

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Does anyone still subscribe to Newsgroups?
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup>

I do but Pathetic Internet stopped doing news feeds and now I cannot 
find a decent free feed in Australia anywhere.

I run my own home news server, or I would, except it has no feed.

I need a feed  (news junky going through withdrawl here).
I suppose I could tunnel through work, but they retired USENET there as well :/

I much prefer newsfroups to web forums and the like.   I even liked 
the asynchronous timing of it all.  Gave me time to think and read,
read and think.

Web forums/blogs are too immediate and ultimately overwhelming.

I left a couple of forums I was deep into 
because firstly I was getting  depressed 
at the stupid kinds of monkey species on them and secondly 
it was same same same on every one of them eventually.

With newsgroups, you could totally lurk, search, grep scan, archive and 
so on without having to interact or go to the other extreme 
and have a good old flame war.   Web forums start out ok and then 
each thread becomes a either a boring introspective on non related 
nonsense or a childish abuse fest.

(will the "filters" let me pass those last three words?!)


rachel

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