One really cool thing about Usenet readers (like slrn) back in the day, was that you could write your own scoring rules for comments to sort and filter conversa

One really cool thing about Usenet readers (like slrn) back in the day, was that you could write your own scoring rules for comments to sort and filter conversations. I will probably go as far as saying that no web based forum has come even close to producing a online group discussion UX as good as what Usenet readers used to have.