From: mt999999@ymail.com   
      
   On 7/18/2021 11:00 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   I'm here for the nostalgia purposes I suppose, I feel like a phone would   
   hamper that.  I don't really do anything on my "phone" other than calls.   
     If I'm here, it's only on a regular usenet reader.   
      
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