Re: Adios, for a while at least

On 2/29/2024 5:28 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-02-29 13:48, -hh wrote:

On 2/24/24 6:19 PM, John wrote:

On 2/23/2024 7:42 PM, -hh wrote:

John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:

On 2/21/24 4:51 AM, Thomas E. wrote:

It's been quite a ride. My first post was in the late 1990's when this
group was a lively MacOS vs Windows discussion forum. W95/98 and OS 7 or
8 were still current topics. Today CSMA is a shadow of its former self.
There are only 3 of us and a few x-poster's left, arguing back and forth
about most anything but Mac vs Windows. Then there is the Wally troll
persona, making wild and false claims about Apple, the company ,and the customers.
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In truth, Mac vs Windows was settled a long time ago. Today both are
highly developed operating systems with significant differences, but
vastly improved. Mac no longer needs advocacy. The forum became
redundant a long time ago. Apple and Microsoft are doing just fine without this forum.
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So it's goodbye for a while. We leave Friday for the annual 2-week
Colorado ski trip. With Google Groups becoming a history repository
tomorrow the activity level has dropped. A good time to enjoy the
mountains again and focus on just having fun.
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Apparently those remaining don't value CSMA enough to go to a paid
service. NNTP will live on for a while, remains to seen how long. It's a
primitive system, long of tooth like FTP. I'll not be surprised if it eventually dies.

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I think I first came here to troll as a Windows person around 2001 or so.

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What do you recommend then as a Windows based Newsreader?
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-hh

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I have been using Thunderbird.

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Well, let's try Thunderbird on the desktop.  The iOS News app seems to be hanging on not sending posts.

 I use Thunderbird with Eternal-September, and it works...
 ...but I need to quit and relaunch it fairly frequently to get it to send and receive.
 

Thanks Alan. I've been a bit busy but figured out how to make this work once got started. You opened Pandora's Box!