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Re: "Trendy" Greeting

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>

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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 Complaining about how an outdated programs fails to read valid posts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.

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        Re: "Trendy" Greeting "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-12-17 20:02 +0000
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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 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-12-18 05:52 +0000
                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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