occasionally I miss Usenet...
One of the reasons I finally abandoned Usenet was because if I had to do *that* much killfiling to make it readable, it just wasn't worth the effort any more. But at least on Usenet I had a killfile (or at least my newsreader software of choice did). It's a feature I've always regretted not having on LJ, and from time to time I'm reminded of why...