The article links the original blog post ( http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ ), which includes conta

The article links the original blog post ( http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ ), which includes contact info and further details. It's a pity that, 30 years on, most of the features that made a good NNTP client (from gnus to Xnews) pleasant and fast are still missing. We now have images and videos, user avatars (Usenet 'face' didn't quite take), advertisements too. Good threading, quick selection, fast loading - not so much. Last year, for a while, I read a local auto forum to get the pulse on the car market. The forum was lively and mostly helpful, kept in line by moderators. Just reading, I found most of what I wanted to know. But, looking at the clock, I was unpleasantly surprised by the time it took to plow through a few dozen posts ...