Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402783908 25376 166.84.1.5 (14 Jun 2014 22:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22913 comp.sys.mac.system:60944 Tim McNamara wrote: > Because the only purpose for social media to exist is the enrichment > of some venture capitalists looking for the next Facebook or Twitter, > whereby Big Info can capture yet more information about us so that we > can be more efficiently exploited by supply siders. Great idea! For somone like Doc, with no money, it is a great idea. The principals of FB, Twitter, et al., are now quite wealthy. And Big Info is going to get your data, no matter what. Except maybe in the EU. Probably there, too. By the way, in case you missed it (or have just plain forgotten), social media was Doc's idea, not mine. I argued strongly against it. > That way we can use the tens of millions of dollars that US taxpayers > put into the development of the Internet to benefit a tiny part of the > private sector even more efficently instead of primarily benefitting > the taxpayers. Huh? Your train of thought has dereailed. > > If it's just another newsreader, any experienced Usenet user who knows > > programming (and what he wants) should be able to get that roughed out > > in his spare time, perhaps with the help of some users/beta testers/ > > other programmers, and then look for funding (what the author of > > MailMate did - that campaign included a user agent that was already > > working quite well). > > Cool! When are you starting? I'm already done, and have been for 20 years now. Time flies! MailMate, by the way, is progressing nicely, and the support it's being given is 100% first class in every possible way. Well worth the US$50. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number