On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Brian Read wrote:

> Tell me again what moving to a news group will buy us?
> I see the same spamming and crap posts that go on forever
> on news groups as on this list. Changing just to change is
> not justification.
>
> Convince me!

Threading newsreaders and kill files.
You could kill the entire thread of spam or even kill
articles that talk about atomic bomb blueprints in all caps if
you want.

Even the good stuff clogs up my mailbox.  I'd rather run my
news program to read it.