Re: Emigration from Usenet

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Now, my system only shows me about two or three headlines from the

  On the flip side, having too few news articles can be a time suck too!
  I'm used to squeezing in a quick Usenet read and firing off a couple
  replies between household chores. Back in the day, I'd mostly chime
  in to help newbies in programming groups. These days, though, it's
  like crickets in there. So I end up checking the newsgroups only to
  come up empty-handed. And that also eats up time. There's just too
  much nothing burger going on in those newsgroups now!

|Too much of nothing
|Can make a man feel ill at ease
|One man's temper might rise
|While another man's temper might freeze
|In the day of confession
|We cannot mock a soul
|Oh, when there's too much of nothing
|No one has control