First, Please feel free to move or delete this thread if you do not feel it's appropriate.

I used to be a regular user of Linux USENET groups such as alt.linux, alt.os.linux, and others. I haven't used the said groups for a couple of months now, but imagine my HORROR when I thought I'd drop by this evening and took the time to download the headers.

The ENTIRE groups are just chocked full of cross-posting trolls and "Windows is better than Linux", "Linux sux", etc, useless nonsense posts.

What is happening here? Do I have to abandon USENET for good? Has anybody else witnessed the shocking decline in the quality of authentic posts?

I used to find the alt.linux group highly useful and a very worthy knowledge base, but now it is so full of idiotic Wintrolls that I feel it is time to pack in USENET for good.

Sorry for the nonsense and rambling nature of this post, I was just so amazed by what I witnessed!

Peace,
ZB
http://www.zazzybob.com