From: office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk   
      
   On 18 Jul 2021, Snidely wrote   
      
   > Thus spake Michael Trew:   
   >> On 7/15/2021 7:45 AM, Snidely wrote:   
   >>> Michael Trew pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   >   
   >>>> I wasn't aware that there was a web based access for Usenet. It   
   >>>> sounds lame.   
   >>>   
   >>> It works well when you aren't able to install software or the IT   
   >>> department blocks NNTP. Google Groups (where the newsreader code   
   >>> is) gets updated frequently, but probably not by usenet   
   >>> diehards. A few months ago, some convenience features were lost   
   >>> (choice of tree view or chronological, and keyboard navigation   
   >>> come to mind), and it has never had a killfile (a third party   
   >>> killfile existed, but couldn't keep up with code changes).   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It does make heavy use of the html environment, almost follows   
   >>> standards (probably more than MS does), and of course you're in   
   >>> the hands of one of your favorite multi-national oligopolies.   
   >>>   
   >>> /dps "but it mostly works"   
      
   >> I only use it at home, not work.   
      
   > That's fine.   
      
   >> I frequently wonder how people could post   
   >> to Usenet on a mobile phone.   
   >   
   > Either with GG, another web forum interface, or with a phone app.   
   > I used to use one on Android, and I know there are people in the   
   > groups I subscribe to who use one on iPhones.   
   >   
   > I could enter text easily enough, but trimming messages was   
   > sometimes a pain.  But it worked.   
      
   I used Groundhog on Android for a while.  It worked more or less OK   
   -- ISTR there were issues with threading, or trimming, or something   
   -- but I had to stop when I upgraded my phone to Android 10, as it   
   had stopped being upgraded.   
      
   It wasn't a patch on my desktop news client -- a now-bewhiskered   
   XNews, which for me has never been surpassed -- and it was a relief   
   to find myself forced back to it.  It means I spend less time reading   
   the groups, but the upside of that is that I waste less time reading   
   the groups.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Harvey   
      
   CanE (30 years), BrEng (39 years),   
   indiscriminately mixed   
      
      
      
      
   > /dps   
   >   
      
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Harvey   
      
   CanE (30 years) and BrE (38 years),   
   indiscriminately mixed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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