From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:08:26 -0700, 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.   
   >   
   >/dps   
      
      
   I used to have an Android Usenet app. Slow and left in the dust in   
   comparison to Agent, but it worked when I got an urge that could only   
   be scratched that way.   
      
   Never tried anything on the iPhone, though. I tend to use Reddit for   
   entertaining me when I am bored and stuck with the phone.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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