Some here might recall that, as well as reading the recent posts, I had
been trying to work my way through over 100,000 old posts dating back to
about 2012.

Last night, when I came on to this group on my Eternal-September UseNet
account, my SeaMonkey Internet Suite (think Firefox and Thunderbird
plus) Mail & Newsgroups function wanted to create a new index for this
group so download the 750,000 or so message headers .... and then marked
them all as 'Read', so, tonight, I only have five unread messages out of
ten new posts!

Of course, I could delete this group and then re-re-download all the
headers and start all over again .... but who could be buggered?? ;-P

Fortunately the Message Filters I had in place for this group still work.

So, unless you guys get posting a hell of a lot more good stuff ....
what am I gunna do with my self?? ;-P
--
Daniel

It was written by Daniel65:

> Some here might recall that, as well as reading the recent posts, I had
> been trying to work my way through over 100,000 old posts dating back to
> about 2012.
>
> Last night, when I came on to this group on my Eternal-September UseNet
> account, my SeaMonkey Internet Suite (think Firefox and Thunderbird
> plus) Mail & Newsgroups function wanted to create a new index for this
> group so download the 750,000 or so message headers .... and then marked
> them all as 'Read', so, tonight, I only have five unread messages out of
> ten new posts!
>
> Of course, I could delete this group and then re-re-download all the
> headers and start all over again .... but who could be buggered?? ;-P
>
> Fortunately the Message Filters I had in place for this group still
> work.
>
> So, unless you guys get posting a hell of a lot more good stuff ....
> what am I gunna do with my self?? ;-P

Usenet is a dying hobby.
There are already generations grown up w/o ever having heard of it.
Only some pre-Facebook/Twitter oldies like us who still engage with it
and sadly many of those are just stupid unreadable trolls.

I recommend you urgently look for some other hobbies to fill in the void
Usenet's decline left in your life. :P

--
Ördög - 👹️ - The newsgroup Devil at your service.

*Ördög* wrote on 22/10/21 6:20 am:
> It was written by Daniel65:
>
>> Some here might recall that, as well as reading the recent posts, I had
>> been trying to work my way through over 100,000 old posts dating back to
>> about 2012.
>>
>> Last night, when I came on to this group on my Eternal-September UseNet
>> account, my SeaMonkey Internet Suite (think Firefox and Thunderbird
>> plus) Mail & Newsgroups function wanted to create a new index for this
>> group so download the 750,000 or so message headers .... and then marked
>> them all as 'Read', so, tonight, I only have five unread messages out of
>> ten new posts!
>>
>> Of course, I could delete this group and then re-re-download all the
>> headers and start all over again .... but who could be buggered?? ;-P
>>
>> Fortunately the Message Filters I had in place for this group still
>> work.
>>
>> So, unless you guys get posting a hell of a lot more good stuff ....
>> what am I gunna do with my self?? ;-P
>
> Usenet is a dying hobby.
> There are already generations grown up w/o ever having heard of it.
> Only some pre-Facebook/Twitter oldies like us who still engage with it
> and sadly many of those are just stupid unreadable trolls.
>
> I recommend you urgently look for some other hobbies to fill in the void
> Usenet's decline left in your life. :P
>
> --
> Ördög - 👹️ - The newsgroup Devil at your service.
>
I do actually have 'the box in the corner' going as I read my groups
...... now I might actually have to watch it rather than just hear it!!
--
Daniel