Re: Emigration from Usenet

On Sat, 27 Jul 2024, Stefan Ram wrote:

Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:

My point is that the “manage your own filters” model is a good candidate
for why almost everybody (expert or not) left Usenet.

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 That's a trip, 'cause I'm totally the "roll your own filters" kind of
 guy. I even took the Usenet approach and ran with it for my news fix.
 I whipped up this gnarly little Python script that scrapes headlines
 from all these news sites and wire services, then it goes HAM
 on filtering everything. You can bet your last avocado toast
 if there's a peep about Kim K, that noise ain't making it to my
 eyeballs! At the end of the day, my code spits out this sweet little
 digest with all the stories that made the cut. If anything slips
 through the cracks that I'm not vibing with, I just tighten up the
 filter. It's like, how do people even function without this setup?
 It's as essential as my morning cold brew from Blue Bottle, I swear.
>

Interesting! Do you have that script available somewhere? Would be interesting to have a look and see if there's something in there that I can use myself.