XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 4/02/2026 2:06 pm, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On 3 Feb 2026 15:42:46 GMT, Frank Slootweg    
   > wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > The question is not what any of us think, but just what it is that   
   > Australian and other laws prohibit persons of certain ages from   
   > accessing.   
   >   
   > Prohibiting apps, like web browsers, would cut them off from a great   
   > deal more than social media.   
   >   
   As I understand it, use of web browsers in not under discussion .... but   
   access to some of the sites by those browsers IS what is under discussion.   
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   Daniel70   
      
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