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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Back at Usenet's height, I checked it numerous times per day, probably
> along the number of times people check Facebook today. It was really
> the only way to keep up with discussions.
> So how often do you check Usenet these days?

That depends on how you define "you Usenet" or "check Usenet".  :-)

On the poor side of the digital divide, offline reading (of Usenet 
as well as other NNTP based forums) is almost a necessity.  In 
service of that mode, I download new Usenet articles almost every 
time that I have access to the 'net.

But I often don't access the 'net for several days at a time - for a 
variety of reasons.  During those periods, sometimes I read 
previously downloaded articles every day.

Like Rudi, when I have posted something, I try to check for 
responses at least once a day.  So sometimes I have to plan ahead 
before I post - to make sure that I will be able to access the 'net 
often enough to see any responses.

That said, I spend less time reading Usenet than I do reading some 
newsgroups on news.grc.com.  IIRC, I heard about the activity in 
this newsgroup (csipg.action) in a post on the grc news server.

And I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of all the gmane 
and gwene newsgroups on the gmane server.

To me, perhaps the most interesting form of Usenet is the time 
machine that is the olduse.net server.

-- 
Eddie