From: CUTjeffrey_blakeney@yahoo.ca   
      
   On 2021-10-26 12:06 a.m., matthe...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me   
   > wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and   
   > also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and   
   > sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proof community? Is it more   
   > searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?   
      
   I, like Charlie, use Thunderbird for e-mail and have for many years.  It   
   was easy to set up the newsgroups with it although I did have to search   
   for a server after ISPs stopped providing access to them long ago.   
      
   The newsgroups are almost the only Apple II stuff I read lately because   
   it is easy for me to do so.  Having to access multiple web sites and not   
   having any sort of offline style reader or even a way for those web   
   sites to let me know what posts are new make it too much work to try to   
   use them.  Also, places like Facebook won't even allow me to see the   
   messages in any sort of chronological order.  It only shows me "Top   
   Posts" so I'm not guaranteed to see everything even if I check every day.   
      
   I used to try to keep up on the Facebook Apple II groups when the   
   navigation pane on the left showed the groups I was in with the number   
   of new messages in that group since I last read it.  Then they kept   
   updating the look of the site and I was reduced to a maximum of 10   
   groups in that pane that I had to pin to display there and then they   
   stopped putting the number of new posts there as well.  Heck, they used   
   to have a small marker that said "Older" at one point so I knew that I   
   had gotten through all possible unread posts/replies but that went away too.   
      
   I have been using offline readers since the BBS days.  Canada Remote   
   Systems, GEnie, Delphi, A2Central were all accessed using offline   
   readers and I find it way more convenient to continue to do so.   
      
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