Hmmm... I find that the venue has changed, but that I'm probably doing as much skimming as I did prior to LJ. I deleted a lot of chatter from mailing lists and killfiled a lot of annoying and pointless posters on newsgroups.

That's interesting. I agree, there is/was a lot of noise-like chatter on mailing lists as well. But I think not quite to the same degree as LJ. But you make a good point about the expectation you get from messages in your in-box as opposed to posts in LJ. It *is* easier to ignore.

The two mediums are different in fundamental ways I'm just beginning to figure out.