Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!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: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <130620142106136918%invid@loclanet.com> <140620141739440345%invid@loclanet.com> <1lnc9t5.14hq0zbqp3romN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402938884 13472 166.84.1.5 (16 Jun 2014 17:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:23000 comp.sys.mac.system:61029 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote: > I don't understand why you persist with the notion that not being > funded equates to failure. I don't understand why you're equating a suggestion about promotion as a statement about not being funded. > What I'm doing is a very deliberate, larger survey to assess the > current and (potential) future state of the Usenet community. Large, as long as it's confined to this hierarchy, it is not. > Regarding Daring Fireball, I've sent John Gruber a few comments > in the past and never gotten a positive response. Hmm. I have. > Nothing about how he runs his site seems receptive to the promotion > of things he does have some personal stake in. Hmm, again. He doesn't read that way to me. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number