From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 9:33:20 PM UTC-6, Justisaur wrote:   
      
   > I had it on my subscribed groups in GG but I almost always forgot about    
   > it. I probably just read a few posts 4 or 5 times since then. Now    
   > that I've got it in Thunderbird I am reminded it exists and when there's    
   > new posts.    
   >    
   > Outlook Express should work o.k. Usenet is ancient tech anyway. I'm not    
   > sure about attaching XP to the internet though, last time I took a    
   > really old version of windows and did that it got hit with viruses    
   > within hours.    
      
   Funny thing about the Net:  I use an AT&T type connection that (knock wood) so   
   far seems to be "virus-free," that is, they scan for / prevent viruses on the   
   *server* side, such that nothing gets *through* their network to infect their   
   clients (like the    
   end user's terminal.)   
      
   I haven't used an *updated* antivirus in *years.*   
      
   Meanwhile, the online email systems seem pretty good at *also* filtering   
   viruses out of emails (by denying any such items through their networks) and   
   they also *flag* all the suspected spams and highly questionable content.    
   Again, seems to have been    
   going smoothly for *years* now.  In fact, the only *problem* I had was when   
   Chrome "end of lifed* its service to XP systems and refused to update, or even   
   install any older version.  (I *lost* a *tremendously* wonderful version of   
   Chrome back during a    
   format/reinstall one year.  Very, very sad....)   
      
   At any rate, XP connects (either by CAT / NIC cable *or* by WiFi) to the   
   router, and the OE in the XP does its thing (or it did, last I checked.  This   
   February is gonna be a *buggar* of going back to the "Old School," but *maybe*   
   there will be some    
   silver linings! 👠  
   âœ”😎)   
      
   Also, in Google Groups, there's a box to check at the top right of each post   
   that automatically "notifies" you of any activity on a post.  That way, I get   
   no extra inbox clutter, and I typically check alt.dreams every day or so...   
   sometimes going as many    
   as 3 or 4 days, but I do check it "frequently" as a matter of the daily course   
   of events.   
      
   > One thing I'm finding annoying with Thunderbird, and I'd assume with    
   > other email programs is I keep hitting reply instead of followup, which    
   > means I reply to only the person who posted's email instead of the    
   > group. So far I think I've caught it before I sent it at least.   
      
   Mmm.... right, in Google Groups, the *primary* reply flag is *always* to the   
   group: replying to the author requires a secondary layer of "finesse" as it   
   were.   
      
   > -Justisaur    
   >    
   > ø-ø    
   > (\_/)\    
   > `-'\ `--.___,    
   > ¶¬'\( ,_.-'    
   > \\    
   > ^'   
      
   I still think the soldier with a rifle is a slightly more accurate version of   
   what I'm seeing, like "Justice with a Sig Sauer."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)