From: usotsuki@buric.co   
      
   On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Jeff Blakeney wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I use Alpine for the same reason.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   There's FB Purity for that, but it's just a bandage on a flesh wound.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Something like that for Failbook would prolly be nice... *_*   
      
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