Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 28 Mar 2015 22:16:03 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <cnonh3F76eeU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <l4jfnl$995$1@dont-email.me> <cnks0aF70euU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnmhc181.nmd.tmo1138@davidjr-macpro.local> <billvan-E45A84.21034127032015@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> <slrnmhchjq.195g.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org> <billvan-D7D671.10325128032015@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> <0001HW.1AC73E2600A715E11090593CF@news.eternal-september.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: individual.net 1PPVUK8UcnyEy2k9z15i+gdHI89B6Li+KBk99OJSIiZk9th8t+
Cancel-Lock: sha1:dIRo7Yia+iZ1V0o3bxsDoaK3zBg=
X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-)
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin)
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.comm:2580

On 2015-03-28, DaveC <not@home.cow> wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2015, bill van wrote:
>
>> If I upgrade, I break the last version of the news reader I've been
>> using since 1994 and a few older games. I gain nothing I feel a need
>> for.
>> 
>> I'll have to upgrade sooner or later when something I need comes
>> along, or Apple decides to block the free upgrade path that exists
>> now. But not yet.
>
> Don’t forget peripherals. Drivers (printer, scanner, etc.) notoriously quit 
> working when one upgrades OS.

Huh? I've upgraded OS X from 10.3 all the way to 10.10 without a single
peripheral malfunctioning. You must be thinking of *other* operating
systems.

> And frequently this means buying a new 
> peripheral(s) as the manufacturer didn’t release an updated driver for your 
> model.

That's definitely *not* the case with OS X.

> Doubly likely if you’re skipping several OS versions in your 
> upgrade.

Again, you must be referring to some *other* OS.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR