Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Newman Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Where are they now? Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 12:06:02 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5b670ea246mec@npost.uk> References: <20240111214138.3e8cd141@devuan> <5b217aa73adave@triffid.co.uk> <5b2192a6aeSpambin@argonet.co.uk> <410796215b.chris@mytardis> <5b66f17a09bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> Injection-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 13:06:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3296eb3f981a061ea6771eb679201baf"; logging-data="3565788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5yQhJscGKuKSK7aGpMGviIXs3/fHTH8U=" User-Agent: Pluto/3.20 (RISC OS/5.29) NewsHound/v1.54 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dO6OJsvVfw4GCN4BdoIr4aFWc2g= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:21393 In article <5b66f17a09bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de>, Alexander Ausserstorfer wrote: > In article , > Martin Wuerthner wrote: > > Sorry about jumping in so late, I found it increasingly hard to find a > > reliable news server in recent years, so I gave up on news for quite a > > while. > My dream is a computer club (or foundation?) which is running a news > server, an email server, a file server, a web server and so on for its > members and which is publishing a printed magazine (here in Germany with > the head line 'Datenblatt'), too, and whose aim is also to teach and > train their members (and non-members) how to use all these technologies, > independend of operating system and processor architecture. > It is unbelievable how weak is knowledge of people in that field where > we have computers everywhere today. > I'm using RISC OS for more then 30 years now and I will stick to it. > Under RISC OS you cannot do all and everything today, especially > belonging the web stuff, but you can do a lot often in a more simple and > transparent way and because of this you can learn there a lot of basics. > Today almost everything is so complicated and akwarded. RISC OS is here > often an expection. It is in the way I like. I agree with you sentiments entirely. I can do things so much more quickly and efficiently with RIS OS. -- Chris