>I am quite curious about whether people really download a large volume
>of news onto their hard disk, regularly, use yarn to read it, and then
>delete the processed news.
I do. I keep up with probably 14 newsgroups. I don't have the time to
go through and pick which threads I want to read ahead of time, and then
only download those. I just grab everything in all the newsgrous I read
(using Souper/GUI), with a bit of minimal filtering (to remove stuff
crossposted to more than 6 or 7 newsgroups), and then import it all into
Yarn. I do have a bit more filtering inside Yarn, to eliminate posts
with FREE SEX or 1-900-PSYCHICS, or certain especially obnoxious
posters, but other than that I pretty much take all that each of those
newsgroups has to offer.
>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.
I tend to get about 400K or so per day. When I have the time, I read
all the articles in the newsgroups I read...when I'm busy, I'll kill the
threads that get boring, or argumentative, or stupid...actually, I kill
those threads pretty much all the time. :)
>Therefore I am curious about other people's yarn use patterns.
Now you know mine.
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