IMA wrote:

> [...]
>
> Usenet has declined quite a bit from say 7yrs ago. It seems all the
> inconsiderate types have found their way to the NG's. 10+ years ago when I
> started you'd never be flamed and peope were much more reasonible.

Usenet had plenty of immature ****s in 1995, including idiots posting
off-topic crap to other newsgroups. Not so different from now, really.

> Back then there were few kids on and mostly the more mature types.

Not hardly. Plenty of university newbies every fall, AOL-ers getting
accounts and showing up totally clueless, the rise of access to the
net via ISPs from home ... it was already well on its way in 1995.
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dgs