I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by jwr on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:00AM (#36860534)

I was a newsadmin back in the day. I hated the binary side of USENET. It brought nothing but trouble, and even on the technical side was a big load on the server.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by boffinAudio on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:00AM (#36861020)

I remember turning on the modem bank of an ISP I helped build back in the day, with great anticipation to learn what the newcomers to the Internet were going to be doing with that amazingly fast new T1 line I'd slaved to get installed, only to discover after 3 weeks of logging that 95% of that fast connection was just being used to download porn, from our USENET server.

Things haven't changed much since then.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by zoky on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:42AM (#36862081)

Bro be acting like the motivation for getting the T1 installed in the first place wasn’t for porn… Remember what the Internet is for, after all.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by boffinAudio on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:11AM (#36874072)

The T1 was for the customers. The 128k Ricochet modems were for me. ;)

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