Haven't used it for text in many years though. I still resent Google a bit for buying Deja News and letting it die on the vine. Google could have transformed usenet into the web era. Dealing with all these random web forums lacking basic features that good news readers had 15 years ago is just a clumsy way of dealing with discussions. When possible I use RSS feeds of forums to bridge the gap. Unfortunately it's still not all that well supported or commonly disabled on many forums.
Haven't used it for text in many years though. I still resent Google a bit for buying Deja News and letting it die on the vine. Google could have transformed usenet into the web era. Dealing with all these random web forums lacking basic features that good news readers had 15 years ago is just a clumsy way of dealing with discussions. When possible I use RSS feeds of forums to bridge the gap. Unfortunately it's still not all that well supported or commonly disabled on many forums.