Newsgroups

what newsgroups to you visit progriders?

the only ones I find really go on nowadays are rec.games.roguelike.development and de.comp.os.unix.linux.*

are there others that are still active and not filled with spam?

general newsgroup/usenet discussion?

I refuse to pay for the privilege of talking to Mentishit. Even when my ISP offered it, I just made lots of embarrassingly misinformed (but very opinionated) posts about programming. I can do that here for free.