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IanM

wrote:

Your problem is that you are further handicapped by a poor newsreader.
Real, dedicated newsreaders are blazing fast and easy to navigate with
keystrokes.

Thats as may be. I'm used to its quirks though. I dont see that a
dedicated reader is going to be much better with the s/n ratio where its
at at the moment in most groups. If you hang out in groups where 90% of
the threads are due to spammers, lusers, mutating sockpuppets and other
wastes of bandwidth, how do you quickly select the threads you want from
the keyboard? Once I've found something worth reading, I'm effectively
in keyboard navigation mode till the end of the good stuff. Here's
hoping things improve next spring post-inaugeration, because I'm in
danger of wearing out my K key.