Re: Firefox "Account"?

From	Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.firefox, netscape.public.mozilla.browser
Subject	Re: Firefox "Account"?
Date	2021-04-10 09:34 -0700
Message-ID	<ide2cbFj0kcU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 4/10/2021 9:08 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
>>On 4/10/2021 4:35 AM, AnthonyL wrote:
>>>On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 09:52:16 -0700, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>On 04/09/2021 04:40 AM, AnthonyL wrote:
>>>>>On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 20:18:50 -0000 (UTC), Rich <rich@example.invalid> 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

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