XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/2/2026 12:24 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >   
   >    I normally also object to back-dating the use of the term 'app' by   
   > several decades, but if you substitute 'app' by 'program' (or   
   > 'application', etc.), then for all intents and purposes, for the user,   
   > Usenet *was* a program, which read/posted articles from/to the *local*   
   > 'spool'. A client program, reading/posting directly from/to a remote   
   > news server came only much later. Remember, NetNews/Usenet *predates*   
   > the Internet by quite a number of years.   
      
   I disagree! Usenet is a service network, in which apps and programs like   
   newsreaders can use it. Usenet itself is NOT an app nor a program.   
      
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