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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:06:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:03:45 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:


> >> >Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :(

> >> It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-)

> >Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-)

> >
> >Ugh. See, this is why I miss DejaNews. Heck, Google Groups could in its 
> >early days before it got worse. And why does https://groups.google.com 
> >require me to log in? Frak that.

> Google was always awful in comparison to Deja News, and only got worse
> as the years rolled on. But it got terrible once they rolled Usenet
> into their whole Groups interface; it polluted both streams and I
> don't think it made users of either platform happier for the
> intersection.

> Still, I was surprised to see how much spam was on c.s.i.p.g.action,
> according to Google. Almost all of that got filtered server-side for
> me and it was rare that any snuck through so it actually ended up on
> my client. Of course, Google could have filtered it too, but I guess
> since most of it was /coming/ from Google groups users, that might
> have been a conflict of interest.

> Narkive is pretty good, although I do wish they had the ability to
> better locate articles. The lack is forgivable though, since that
> would likely require a lot more CPU and bandwidth, and I suspect the
> site is already run on a shoestring. 


> >> * not actually a spreadsheet

> >Oh, you pecker. :P

> Would it make you feel better if I told you it was a five-gigabyte MS
> Access database?* ;-)

Geez. Big.


> * I don't actually use a database either. If you must know, it's all
> just a bunch of plain text files stored in a ZIP** archive. 

5 GB of text files? Impressive. I am also an old school basic text files 
too.


> ** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-)

How big in total decompressed?
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