Category Archives: Usenet

Reasons I like Usenet

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1. The junky funny anarchic happy wacko groups out there
2. The massive variety of groups
3. The anonymity
4. The flames.

The spam problem is huge so setting up filters takes time but finding good groups is well worth it.

A couple of them:
free.uk.mad.alien.sheep.on.drugs.discussing.politics
alt.sex.wizards
free.munch.onions
free.clinton.and.assholes.who.like.to.trash.him
free.fuckwit.scrappy
alt.www.stupid-idiots.com
alt.music.cake
alt.binaries.pictures.drinks.coffee
alt.crafts.candlemaking.soapmaking.moderated
free.radish.therapy
cheese-house.english-jokes
alt.music.string.cheese.incident
alt.politics and the message here – one of 3 million headers on the new server – was x-posted to alt.machines.cnc, misc.survivalism, rec.crafts.metalworking, alt.aol.tricks, alt.autos.toyota,talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.libertarian

I don’t subscribe to any of those and those I do are far too busy to read everything but Usenet is a wonderful place, somewhere that hopefully never goes away. I’ll have to create a group, can’t be tricky. I’ll have it as an online ambition.

Winston and usenet

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Winston is ill – being sick, his ears and nose are really cold, his eyelids are pale. I turn to the web for some advice. A web search turns up very little. I click a Groups search – ‘great dane cold nose’. The number of result from alt.sex.* are not the ones I shall be pursuing. See? Porn is everywhere

Wiki attention

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Remembered I'd got a bookmark to my under-loved wiki so tidied a few things up there and headed over to the main PmWiki site. I've been using a Basecamp thing as a Todo which has done a pretty good job of making me do things – PmWiki now has a Todo recipe. It's also got a Calender recipe. It's still a very very good wiki program too. And I've finally figured out how to not let anyone but me see what's in it. Neat

Killfiles. I use a fair number of mail filters like most people I guess but I kill no mail – stuff like SpamAssassin and other server stuff is something I've never looked at and probably won't as Thunderbird does a good enough job at picking the crap out (plus that server stuff looks complex). But Usenet …… there was a filter I used to use which would tell you the number of headers, download everything THEN run the filter. So if dickweed troll had posted 100 times you'd see that number appear, download then disappear. It became an annoyance because it was a constant reminder that you were killfiling. So the rules I used / linked to below are wonderful – killfiled without a trace. Sure I see responses sometimes but as those responses contain – for the most part – mockery of the OP I'm up for reading them.