Le Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:14:57 +0800, riverman a écrit :

Do the "old-timers" agree, or am I being reactionary?

Yes to both. I subscibe to a handful of NGs, and see the same deterioration
on all of them. It seems to come in cycles, and despite the drivel and spam,
some excellent new posters seem to trickle in with the riff-raff. I've
learned to just ignore or delete threads that are cluttering up the place,
and to recognize that certain posters traditionally and continually still
have something useful to say, so I always read their posts.

Couldn't say better. But being reactionnary might be good thing also to
preserve a newsgroup...

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