sci.research.careers

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, morrisjcroy@ wrote:

>> Oh, you don't need to lay it on that thick. I went away for a few weeks
>> once and what happened? All/most the lurkers came out of the woodwork and
>> made, mostly, one-liner posts, and one-line replies to the one liners,
>> which led to more one-line replies, giggles, grunts, burps, and other
>> undemure noises.
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> My absence was for more than a decade, until recently. Back then, I
> stopped reading usenet altogether just before you started to become
> very active on . I suppose it was around the same
> time when AOL'ers started to invade usenet in large numbers, which
> significantly lowered the signal-to-noise ratio. That's when I had
> enough and stopped reading usenet altogether.

I got on about 1991 and over the next 5-10 years saw a decline in the
quality of a lot of content. One old timer I keyboarded with told me that
all of the "old guard" have moved off to other channels (IRC, mailing
lists, majordomos, etc., whatever). Its like CB radio. The FCC took the
eleven meter band away from the hams and gave it to the CBers and what
passed for communications was a big step down in quality and purpose. I
hate to admit that there certainly is a larger fraction of riff-raff out
there than I'd like it to be.



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