XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Mr. Man-wai Chang  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
     Nitpicking! :-) Note that I said "for the user".   
      
     Any definition/explanation can - and probably will be - debated. For   
   me, "service network" it quite meaningless, *what* kind of service?   
   "communication network" isn't much better.   
      
     Anyway, as you don't like Wikipedia's definition, what's *yours*?   
      
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