Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:16:18 +, Duncan wrote:
nntp itself is slowly fading into history
I wish I understood why!
Because, for the most part, people think the WWW *is* the internet.
Anything that can't be accessed via a browser is "Here be dragons"
territory; Possibly d
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:33:18 -0800
Joe Zeff wrote:
Hello Joe,
> And before there was usenet, there were BBS's and Fido. And before
I came from that sort of background. I just loved the sense of
anticipation; Will I get a reply the next time I d/l my Fido packet?
Replies could be arriving for
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:30:50 +
Rui Maciel wrote:
Hello Rui,
> Yes, I also believe there is a hefty dose of ignorance (wilful or not)
Largely, not wilful, IMO. Most people that came to the internet did so
well after the www exploded. Those of us left that use nntp and have
even heard of g
On 01/15/2011 12:21 PM, Kurt Schilling wrote:
Absolutely spot on! As a usenet denizen for a decade and a half or more,
I tend to avoid web forums mainly because they are just not user
friendly. Just my 2 cents.
AOL
And before there was usenet, there were BBS's and Fido. And before
Fido, ther
Rui Maciel wrote:
On 01/15/2011 06:11 PM, Maurice Batey wrote:
What is there out there that is more convenient than following
newsgroups?
Although I do follow the occasional user or interest Forum, it is
nowhere near as convenient as following newsgroups via e.g. Pan.
(After trying Pan2, I'm s
On 01/15/2011 06:53 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:11:35 +
Maurice Batey wrote:
Hello Maurice,
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:16:18 +, Duncan wrote:
nntp itself is slowly fading into history
I wish I understood why!
Because, for the most part, people think the WWW *is* the i
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:07:41 + (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> IDR whether it shows up in the headers or not, but you can check as I
> use pan to post here (thru gmane).
User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies; GIT 25ed40d branch-testing)
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I am on the email list. Unless y
On 01/15/2011 06:11 PM, Maurice Batey wrote:
> What is there out there that is more convenient than following
> newsgroups?
>
> Although I do follow the occasional user or interest Forum, it is
> nowhere near as convenient as following newsgroups via e.g. Pan.
>
> (After trying Pan2, I'm still usin
Valeryan_24 posted on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:52:37 +0100 as excerpted:
> I should really try to learn
> how to use Git to update programs used... I just run Ubuntu official
> repositories and maintainers ppa to install and update the softs.
As I run the git version I haven't checked, but have you ch
Lacrocivious Acrophosist posted on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:56:04 + as
excerpted:
> I only wish he had put
> something in the 'About' box so we'd know what version we're using when
> we run it ;-)
There is. Not about the repo, but with a patch added some time ago, at
least here (testing branch),
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:11:35 +
Maurice Batey wrote:
Hello Maurice,
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:16:18 +, Duncan wrote:
> > nntp itself is slowly fading into history
> I wish I understood why!
Because, for the most part, people think the WWW *is* the internet.
Anything that can't be accessed
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:16:18 +, Duncan wrote:
> nntp itself is slowly fading into history
I wish I understood why!
What is there out there that is more convenient than following
newsgroups?
Although I do follow the occasional user or interest Forum, it is
nowhere near as convenient as follo
Hi Duncan,
Thanks a lot for your quick and complete reply.
Your mail confirmed what I was afraid of, not seeing any news about
another Pan release since last summer discussions. That's also one of
the limits of FLOSS, some excellent programs, really useful, depend from
only 1 person, and when
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