bert wrote:

Here I can look at a subject line click down the OP and decide if
it's of interest and if not on to the next thread in a couple of
ticks. Newsnet delivers all the posts from all the groups I
subscribe to in nicely organised threads and I read them at my
leisure.

this ^

URG isn't the only newsgroup I use, and they're all slowly withering
away, but Usenet is still by far the best way of following a
"conversation", imo.

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Chris