Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ken Blake Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,netscape.public.mozilla.browser Subject: Re: Firefox "Account"? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:34:19 -0700 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <3KbtpoFnbabgFwk$@255soft.uk> <60718d34.15624312@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net smheIemDxUm6ti3CrqYWVAEYY6Er0l4ULmTgu0Uzsv/j3NV2L/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:b2Bu+NgSQLZC/Y21dVxtwspCnh0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:151 netscape.public.mozilla.browser:57 On 4/10/2021 9:08 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Ken Blake wrote: >>On 4/10/2021 4:35 AM, AnthonyL wrote: >>>On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 09:52:16 -0700, The Real Bev wrote: >>>>On 04/09/2021 04:40 AM, AnthonyL wrote: >>>>>On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 20:18:50 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: > >>>>>>The median point is exceedingly low on the overall "technical >>>>>>competence" measurement line. > >>>>... >>>>>Temporarily I have an iPad, hate the thing and a friend who uses one, >>>>>asked, in an email, why. I started to list all the things I didn't >>>>>like about the iPad and Apple then realise she wouldn't have >>>>>understood what I was on about, so I didn't in the end bother. > >>>>Years ago Charter's usenet feed had been down for a couple of days. The >>>>first-line helpdroid didn't know what usenet was, so he transferred me >>>>upward. > >>>When BT (back in dial-up days) were trying to get me to sign up to the >>>new broadband service I asked if they had Newsgroups "Oh yes, you can >>>get BBC and other news from our connection". > >>The term "newsgroups" is a very poor one. It doesn't describe whst >>newgsroups are and it confuses many people. > > There was a commercial news service called (someone remind me) that took > stories off the wire and uploaded them into newsgroups organized by > topic. That may be what they're talking about. Almost certainly not. They just didn't know what a newsgroup was. -- Ken