[Gllug] ADSL router recommendations?

Alan Peery peery at io.com
Wed May 1 19:27:00 UTC 2002


tet at accucard.com wrote:

>>Usenet is about the only thing I can think of..
>>    
>>
>
>Really? Is there anything worthwhile there any more? I stopped reading
>news around 1993/94 or so, when the amount of spam and generally poor
>signal to noise ratio made it pointless. Have things improved since
>then?
>  
>
Yes, but it depends on the group and your news reader.  Most spam 
doesn't thread into the converations, so using a threaded newsreader 
makes reading more tolerable.  EG:

noise
noise
signal
    signal
       signal
noise

Alan
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Alan Peery
Unix since 1985
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