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I disagree. I've never yet seen a forum environment which was more usable than GNUS was for me 20-mumble years ago.
by rout39574 3y ago
I disagree. I've never yet seen a forum environment which was more usable than GNUS was for me 20-mumble years ago.
- queuebert 3y agoAgree, except with Pine (now Alpine) as the aggregator. Very high signal-to-noise ratio.
- tptacek 3y agoI think you're taking for granted things like forum archive search that are table stakes now, but were space alien technology during Peak Usenet.
- h2odragon 3y agowe just ran `grep` on the news spool directories Usenet with full access to a big server was fun. With just NNTP access, it was diminished. 3 to 6 hops out in UUCP/WWIV/FIDOnet land it was a different animal. Still of use but high friction.
- tptacek 3y agoI assume you were taking something less than full feeds, because on a full feed reader server, just keeping up with the inode demands for all the messages was a challenge; grepping would have taken for-fucking-ever.
- h2odragon 3y agoremember to use `nice` :) it wouldn't be polite to scan the whole spool, just the groups that might bear results. kibo was an anomaly i had a shell on a big server for a while; i fed the hinterlands with selective feeds.