Comment by canucker2016

Usenet pre-"green-card-spam" was a relative utopia.

Sure you had arguments. That's where 'flamewar' came from. But quickly people tired of that and created *.advocacy sub-newsgroups to let people vent in their corner of the net.

Then domains were opened up for commerce a few years later and eternal September became a thing... The net never recovered, it just used up more bandwidth.