I confess I dont. I first grabbed yarn, because my ladyfriend had
a lot of messages (but not many kbytes) from an activist org. coming
to my mail account. I use yarn, so she can read and reply to her
messages online. I sometimes send long mail messages for me to yarn,
but usually processes my own (low volume) mail online. I also download
one very high volume, high Kbyte newsgroup to yarn: ba.jobs.offered.
I send this to a friend looking for a job. However, I filter ba.jobs.offered
extensively only, before downloading articles. Otherwise, I would be
downloading 20 Mbytes or so of this stuff each run.
To me the salient issue is the Kbyte count: I could see downloading
many articles regularly but not many Mbytes that must get deposited
and than deleted from my PC. Further, there are few newsgroups I want
to follow regularly, systematically - article by article. Mostly,
I browse both newsgroups and articles within a particular newsgroup.
It seems impractical to me to download huge amounts of data, just
to select from them offline on a random basis.
Therefore I am curious about other people's yarn use patterns.