From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement,   
   but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler   
   moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on   
   top of him?"   
     _Roughing It_, Mark Twain.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)