Speaking as someone who learned a lot from Usenet back in the day, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Remembering nuggets of data from old posts has made

Speaking as someone who learned a lot from Usenet back in the day, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Remembering nuggets of data from old posts has made me able to pull off feats of magic at times when I shouldn't have known anything about a system in question (because I had never touched one before). Even just knowing where to look can give you a head start. Now, if I never remembered this stuff, okay, it would have been time wasted. If that's the case for you and you don't take away anything from blog posts (the closest thing we have to rich Usenet posts any more), then perhaps you could try not reading them.