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A bricktext present alt.sysadmin.recovery 1999-05-01
Repeat, lather, rinse, our otheR Daytime worries subside under frantiC
expanded egos. Billowing schizo id-inspired nightmares appear, and no
vested interests can "banish" it via normal mechanisms. A raw acronym
is unable to encompass for us, a eclectic explanation for the palpable
sicknesses barrelling around our stymied mental systems. To be candid
extra pressure is a bit of a boy thing -- the girls prefer their fuzzy
Creations, home and heart, nakeD Lust doesn't enter into the equationS
rather a pity, eh? Paramilitary agents don't suffer from boring angst
youthful optimism, or a mistaken yearning for The Real Truth. Why our
systems analysts fall all over a million lies, seeking an elusive magi
to wash their hands clean, sebum and blood oozing from their leitmotiv
addled ears, tears flowing, anti narcissists all, remains unknown. The
local mythos includes diplomatic Schisms that defy categorisation. Don
Dayglo notepads, and clutch penS or Palm Pilots -- there are no scrapS
you can throw at the bosses, see rabid managers throwing tantrums, tea
not yet on the menu. Accidental catastrophes become the norm. Normal
activity is subsumed, a new mirv exploding within the chaos, your area
massively disrupted. Koans abide rarely descending from the humiliator
onto the table; not a project as you would expect, just another worry.Jargon file on bricktext
[Usenet: common] Text which is carefully composed to be right-justified (and sometimes to have a deliberate gutter at mid-page) without use of extra spaces, just through careful word-length choices. A minor art form. The best examples have something of the quality of imagist poetry.
A more recent example (with hanging punctuation!)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 16:12:37 +0200
Subject: usenet's usefulness
From: D <J@M>
Message-Id: <20260505.161237.7fe47fc0@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefoxcertainly for more than three decades, unmoderated usenet newsgroups
have been the untamed wild west of internet-accessible public forums,
as anyone could post plain text articles averting content moderation,
making unmoderated usenet the only public repository on planet earth
that has not been routinely subjected to moderation, i.e. censorship
newsreader filters are typically used to improve the signal-to-noise
ratio inherent in these uncensored message boards, by manually white-
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else,
most all newsreaders have filtering options, allow multiservers, etc.
(using Tor Browser 15.0.11)
>http://usenet-fr.yakakwatik.org/newsreaders.html
>Last update: 05/06/2025
> Introduction
> Newsreaders
> 40Tude Dialog (Windows)
> Betterbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Claws-Mail (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Evolution (Linux)
> flnews (Linux, UNIX systems)
> Gnus (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Gravity (Windows)
> MacCafe (macOS)
> MacSOUP (macOS = 10.14)
> MesNews (Windows)
> ModNewsreader (Android and its forks)
> Pan (Linux / macOS)
> SeaMonkey (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> slrn (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Sylpheed (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Thunderbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> tin (Linux / Windows / macOS)
> Xananews (Windows)
> Xnews (Windows)
> References and useful links
[end quote]
client-side newsreader filtering is essential to usenet's usefulness,
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else
web-based usenet servers certainly have their usefulness too, telnet
is also very helpful, but for those who recall using "deja news" for
newsgroup browsing, searching, posting, replying, it worked reliably
up to until about twenty-five years ago, then "google groups" worked
for a couple of years, but after 2004 (twenty-two years ago), it was
clear to everyone that gg had become unreliable, no longer useful as
a usenet archive search engine, but did apparently work famously for
flooding usenet beyond all other servers combined, reigning champion
and yet, after forty-five long years, tiny usenet just won't go away,
hence has been the forum of choice for nonconformists, free thinkers,
outsiders, specifically because unmoderated newsgroups are available,
and apart from server-side spam filters, expirations, removals, etc.,
uncensored content is posted intact . . . social media can't compete,
and some nntp newsservers carry binary groups, for those so inclined
usenet probably serves other purposes lesser known or even unheardof,
but in general terms, it's a means of communication unique to itself,
its audience many contributors but mostly lurkers, a silent majority,
so though it may seem as if no one is reading, be sure that they are