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On 2014-08-19, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-08-19, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> On 19 Aug 2014 13:55:11 GMT
>>> greymausg@mail.com wrote:
>>
>>> > comp.misc stats for about a month
>> Yep, it's my newsreader.  Learned its keyboard mappings years ago
>> (approaching 20 some years ago now) and so changing to something else
>> involves a lot of unlearning built in muscle memory.  Since it still
>> works, and works just fine, and usenet is supposed to be text anyway,
>> why change to something else.
>>
>> And, being text/console, it runs inside a screen session (with about
>> 14 other text sessions for other stuff) that I simply reconnect to
>> from whichever machine/location I'm accessing it from at the moment.
>>
>
> Those are all great reasons.  I've just installed it and will have to
> give it a try on this here Linux box.
>
> Actually, one of the things I like about Usenet is that if you get bored
> or itchy for a new 'experience' you can try one of dozens of readers,
> just for fun.  I've used Alpine, SLRN, Knode, Pan, and some other old
> ones I didn't like much like xnews and maybe some others.  It's still
> just Usenet.

used on `alt.ffolklore.computers' G2 is either first or second on the list.
on `comp.misc' , my failing eyesight does not show it at all.
(G2 is, AFAIK, GoogleGroups)


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stats greymausg@mail.com - 2014-08-19 13:55 +0000
  Re: stats David Hume <David.Hume@hushmail.com> - 2014-08-19 15:37 +0100
    Re: stats greymausg@mail.com - 2014-08-19 16:55 +0000
  Re: stats RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-19 14:40 +0000
    Re: stats Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 15:35 +0000
      Re: stats RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-19 17:39 +0000
        Re: stats greymausg@mail.com - 2014-08-20 07:55 +0000

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