> This is the way it once was -- more or less.
When?
I've been around Usenet since before the Great Renaming, and as far
as I can recall there have *always* been complaints about low
signal-to-noise ratio. SNR keeps going down, and newsreading tools
keep adjusting to become ever more selective, and folks keep reading.
If Usenet II actually works as its founders want it to, I think it
will be missing the spark of vitality that has made Usenet interesting.
regards, tom lane