From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox


99.9999% of usenet is troll farm, where "discussion" is almost entirely chatbots chatting/chattering coactively, filling active newsgroups with
their "nothing burger" some thirty-two years under trollfarm occupation, withal, some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

(using Tor Browser 15.0.5)
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/

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unmoderated usenet newsgroups are still useful as the public repository
for lurkers and researchers, to that extent kudos to nntp server admins
for collectively sustaining this internet-accessible plain text library,
but any conversation between non-robot participants is a million-to-one

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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

D wrote:

99.9999% of usenet is troll farm, where "discussion" is almost entirely chatbots chatting/chattering coactively, filling active newsgroups with
their "nothing burger" some thirty-two years under trollfarm occupation, withal, some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

I don't trust that statistic, and that rather invalidates your conclusion.

(using Tor Browser 15.0.5)
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/

Index of /usenet/CONFIG
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[ ] Parent Directory
[TXT] HIERARCHY-NOTES 2010-01-18 03:50 27K
[DIR] LOGS/ 2026-02-01 01:00 -
[TXT] README 2019-01-07 02:58 14K
[ ] active 2026-02-02 13:00 2.0M
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active *
[ ] active.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 264K
[ ] active.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 292K
[TXT] control.ctl 2023-08-05 15:57 104K
[ ] newsgroups 2026-02-02 13:00 2.3M
[ ] newsgroups.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 620K
[ ] newsgroups.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 685K
...

*(45187 lines / 2172291 bytes / 2.17 megabytes) . . .

https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active
aaa.inu-chan 0000000000 0000000001 m
...

<snipped 45185 lines>

...
zippo.spamhippo.top100 0000000000 0000000001 m

[end quoted plain text]

*.*
39370 y
5811 m
6 n
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45187 total


alt.binaries.*
2569 y
50 m
_______
2619 b

unmoderated usenet newsgroups are still useful as the public repository
for lurkers and researchers, to that extent kudos to nntp server admins
for collectively sustaining this internet-accessible plain text library,
but any conversation between non-robot participants is a million-to-one

--- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

R Daneel Olivaw,

some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

I don't trust that statistic, and that rather invalidates your conclusion.

Don't worry, he will soon inform you that you are delusional for assuming
that the participants in this, and many other newsgroups, are not
(chat)bots.

And than turn his own - quite unproven - claim around and demand you to
prove that most of us are, in fact, not all bots.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

R.Wieser wrote:

R Daneel Olivaw,

some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

I don't trust that statistic, and that rather invalidates your conclusion.

Don't worry, he will soon inform you that you are delusional for assuming that the participants in this, and many other newsgroups, are not
(chat)bots.

And than turn his own - quite unproven - claim around and demand you to
prove that most of us are, in fact, not all bots.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Of *course* I'm a bot, you know what the "R" at the start of my name
stands for.
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

R Daneel Olivaw,

Don't worry, he will soon inform you that you are delusional for assuming
that the participants in this, and many other newsgroups, are not
(chat)bots.

...

Of *course* I'm a bot, you know what the "R" at the start of my name
stands for.

Yep, I do. Although it stands for Robot, you're an android with a
positronic brain - which is as far away from a current AI as humans from monkeys. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 12:28:09 +0100, "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid>
wrote:

R Daneel Olivaw,

Don't worry, he will soon inform you that you are delusional for assuming >>> that the participants in this, and many other newsgroups, are not
(chat)bots.

...

Of *course* I'm a bot, you know what the "R" at the start of my name
stands for.

Yep, I do. Although it stands for Robot, you're an android with a >positronic brain - which is as far away from a current AI as humans from >monkeys. :-)

Hey, hey! We're the Monkees and we like to monkey around...
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