I gave up on Usenet newsgroups when the noise in groups of interest (mainly rec.music., comp.lang. and comp.sys.*) led to me spending too much time managing my

I gave up on Usenet newsgroups when the noise in groups of interest (mainly rec.music., comp.lang. and comp.sys.*) led to me spending too much time managing my killfile in relation to actually reading and replying to news. It really was too much to self-moderate your way through. The volume was just too much. As well, you couldn't sort through the trash to find the pearls. The volume was a trickle compared to volume today. I don't have a source for this assertion, but I think it is reasonable.