Some things don't change
Feb. 21st, 2014 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, on a whim, I decided to configure an NNTP client today. After discovering that MT-Newswatcher died with Mavericks, I loaded up Thunderbird. There's still an active and free Usenet feed at Eternal September, and I subscribed to a few of the groups I'd frequented twenty years ago.
The aging of Usenet's obvious all over the place, from the general lack of content to the fact that the newest rec.arts.sf.tv group I can find is for Jeremiah. But I did subscribe to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5. Where the most recent thread is from October of last year, talks about Michael O'Hare's death the year before, and (of course) devolves into a flame war by the second of the four messages. Involving curse words and insults about penis size.
On the plus side, hey, spam doesn't seem to be a big thing in Usenet any more.
The aging of Usenet's obvious all over the place, from the general lack of content to the fact that the newest rec.arts.sf.tv group I can find is for Jeremiah. But I did subscribe to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5. Where the most recent thread is from October of last year, talks about Michael O'Hare's death the year before, and (of course) devolves into a flame war by the second of the four messages. Involving curse words and insults about penis size.
On the plus side, hey, spam doesn't seem to be a big thing in Usenet any more.