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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Adios, for a while at least
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:53:36 -0400
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I first came here to troll as a Windows person around 2001 
>>>>> or so.
>>>>
>>>> What do you recommend then as a Windows based Newsreader?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -hh
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been using Thunderbird.
>>
>> 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!