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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 9 Feb 2014 23:08:24 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-02-09, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 09.02.2014 18:22, Doc O'Leary wrote:
>> In article <ld7hcj$spc$1@tota-refugium.de>,
>>   Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not using outlook express on windows 95 running on that VM base?
>>> That should be approximately the same level of crap!
>>>
>>> Why the hell would you want to keep using  a completely obsoleted
>>> software that is neither maintained nor compliant?
>>
>> You might as well ask why everyone on Usenet doesn't just switch to web
>> forums already.  Because sometimes the old stuff wasn't broke, at least
>> not bad enough compared to the "fixed" alternatives.  Right now, Mac
>> users have no good choices for Usenet readers, and that appears unlikely
>> to change, so it should come as no surprise that they'll jump through a
>> few hoops to get back something that works well.
>>
>> Put another way, if the "level of crap" to be found in running MacSOUP
>> or slrn is *higher* than that of setting up a VM to run Windows, then it
>> makes perfect sense that someone might prefer to run Outlook.  The real
>> message here is to the developers of newsreaders: your app is so bad
>> that people will go to ^this^ extent to not use it.  And it's clear by
>> their inaction that they just do not care.
>>
> Works well?
> įղժҽҽժ MT-WN ìʂ էհąէ çɾąքքվ էհąէ ìէ çąղ'է ҽѵҽղ ժҽąӀ աìէհ Աղìçօժҽ. mìղժ: 
> ìղ էհҽ 21ʂէ çҽղէմɾվ!

God, you're boring. All you seem to care about it Unicode characters in
news clients. Do you have a life outside of that?

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JR