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   Michael Trew to Questor   
   Re: Welcome to our streaming future   
   14 Jul 21 11:21:47   
   
   From: mt999999@ymail.com   
      
   On 7/13/2021 3:28 PM, Questor wrote:   
   > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:02:55 -0800 (PST), Bob  wrote:   
   >> Almost anything other than TCP-IP is dead, and the WWW will continue to   
   dominate   
   >> that.  How many of you are still reading this via NNTP?   
   >   
   > I still read newsgroups via NNTP and a "real" (albeit very dated) newsreader.   
   >   
      
   How else does one read/post on Usenet?  I'm using an older version of   
   Thunderbird, but is there another method?   
      
   I've heard of "google groups" but I have no clue what that is.  Sounds   
   pointless, it's easy enough to just use a newsreader.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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