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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: "Trendy" Greeting |
| Date | 2018-12-18 18:56 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrnq1igm6.2upb.g.kreme@jaka.local> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-7XObdNfqWWs8@localhost> <slrnq1g5sb.14qj.g.kreme@jaka.local> <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-nIXgedMQNB5r@localhost> <slrnq1h2p3.1rjp.g.kreme@jaka.local> <pvaqfv$24b$2@dont-email.me> |
In message <pvaqfv$24b$2@dont-email.me> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote: > On 18/12/18 16:52, Lewis wrote: >> In message <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-nIXgedMQNB5r@localhost> John Varela >> <newlamps@verizon.net> wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:39:23 UTC, Lewis >>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >> >>>> Your newsreader is broken. You should run something from this >>>> decade. >>> >>> You have something against OS/2? >> >> Not specifically, but your newsreader was last updated (minorly) in >> 2006 and appears to have last had a significant update in around >> 2001. >> >> Complaining about how an outdated programs fails to read valid posts >> is something I definitely am against. >> >>> If you can point me to a native Mac newsreader that is as good >>> *for my purposes* as ProNews/2, I will happily move to it. I've >>> checked a bunch of Mac newsreaders and have found none anywhere >>> near as good *for the way I work* as ProNews/2. >> >> For certain values of "works". >> >> I use slrn, which is a text based reader, on Mac OS. > slrn is also available for OS/2. I used it for some time, but didn't > like its poor choice of character sets. I gather that this has since > been fixed, but by now I'm so used to Thunderbird that it's not worth > switching back. At least on the Mac slrn is happy to use UTF-8 and even supports things like emojis and Hebrew text, and all in the same posts (or the same line, though switching to right-to-left is problematic. ⌘💭℞⚒︎ -- 'I like the sound of that,' said Mrs Palm. 'I like the echoes,' said Dr Downey.
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Re: "Trendy" Greeting Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-12-17 21:39 +0000
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Re: "Trendy" Greeting Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2018-12-18 23:51 +1100
Re: "Trendy" Greeting Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-12-18 18:56 +0000
Re: "Trendy" Greeting Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2018-12-19 00:04 +1100
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