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Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly

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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:12:13 GMT, SilverSlimer, thunk thusly:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:22:09 +0000, RonB wrote:
>
>> On 2018-09-28, SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 04:31:44 +0000, RonB wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-09-27, SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:25:19 +0000, RonB wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2018-09-27, SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, it's not too great but it gets the job done in the end. I
>>>>>>> also think it's the only Usenet reader I've used which loads the
>>>>>>> 2-bit images some posters have attached to their Usenet identities.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pan was the closest I could get to XNews when I left Windows and
>>>>>> it's definitely not "crap." It uses a good filter system and does a
>>>>>> good job with quotes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually disagree about the filter system. So far, it's the worst
>>>>> and least intuitive I've come across since the function, in the
>>>>> software itself, seems broken and you have to edit the config file on
>>>>> your own. Of course, you have to understand _how_ to edit it as well
>>>>> and lucky for me,
>>>>> Fabian Russell and Steve Carroll helped me out quite a bit with that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thunderbird is a _lot_ better than Pan for Usenet but I'm not much in
>>>>> favour of using Mozilla software.
>>>> 
>>>> I completely disagree about Thunderbird and Usenet. I thought it was
>>>> terrible. Mangled quotes, hard (for me) to use. And what I really
>>>> disliked about it is that I once mistakenly sent out a personal email
>>>> respone over my Usenet account. (Heartfelt letter to my younger
>>>> brother who, at the time, was strugglng with addiction. I've seen
>>>> others do something similar.) That was the last time I ever used
>>>> Thunderbird for Usenet. Since then I've always used something
>>>> specifically designed for newsgroups, basically Xnews (then Xnews
>>>> under Wine), then Pan, then slrn.
>>>> 
>>>> That said, choice is good. Use what you're comfortable with. I'm not
>>>> sure why you don't want to use Mozilla software, but I'm sure there's
>>>> a reason.
>>>
>>> Mozilla = social justice warrior advocates who got rid of Brendan Eich
>>> because he had donated to an organization which was against abortion
>>> and donated to Antifa. Good points about Thunderbird though and I have
>>> to admit that I faced the same. It's one of the reasons I use Evolution
>>> over Thunderbird for e-mail.
>> 
>> Yeah, that's true, but pretty soon that's going to be just about every
>> corporation. The blackmail and extortion racket is pervasive and the
>> screeching mobs see no ethical delimma in doing "whatever it takes."
>> Exactly the same mindset of those attacking Kavanaugh (probably
>> controlled by the same slime).
>
> Well, if all corporations under the sun eventually get controlled my 
> brain-dead social justice warriors, I'll have to stop using all software 
> made by all corporations under the sun. I'm resisting this shite at all 
> costs. 
>
> It's not even a matter of left vs. right anymore; it's a matter of sane 
> vs. insane, normal vs. abnormal. I have no interest in supporting the 
> evil of the left in any way, even accidentally.

No one cares what little catholic gurls think.
Just lift your skirt and genuflect like a good cathoilc.
If you were in a dark room, and I turned on a lamp, you'd bow to the lamp.
Idiot.

-- 
Brick Mortar

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Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-26 12:37 +0000
  Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 19:45 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-26 23:56 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 20:29 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-27 01:03 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 07:24 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 08:16 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:53 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-27 12:13 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 00:57 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Sam O'Nella <poison@donteatit.net> - 2018-09-26 21:04 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:41 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:29 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:31 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:06 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:22 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-29 01:12 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-29 01:21 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-28 20:30 -0700
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:23 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:22 +0000
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:27 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:05 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 20:25 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:19 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 22:23 +0000

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