Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
Hi,
Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I think of it this way:
In 1:1 communication I have both messaging and email. Messaging is quick, like "when do we meet this evening?". Email is long term, like "this is a complex topic I wanted to discuss with you for quite some.".
In 1:n communication I have both <you name it> and Usenet. <you name it> is quick, like "look at this eBay offer!". Usenet is long term, like "this is the result of a project I've been working for quite some time.".
Regards,
Oliver
Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups?
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proofcommunity? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's
decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk.
Is it more of a future-proof community? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proofcommunity? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me
wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and
also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proof community? Is it more
searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
On 2021-10-26 12:06 a.m., matthe...@gmail.com wrote:
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me
wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and
also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and
sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proof community? Is it more
searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I, like Charlie, use Thunderbird for e-mail and have for many years. It was easy to set up the newsgroups with it although I did have to search for a server after ISPs stopped providing access to them long ago.
The newsgroups are almost the only Apple II stuff I read lately because it is easy for me to do so. Having to access multiple web sites and not having any sort of offline style reader or even a way for those web sites to let me know what posts are new make it too much work to try to use them. Also, places like Facebook won't even allow me to see the messages in any sort of chronological order. It only shows me "Top Posts" so I'm not guaranteed to see everything even if I check every day.
I used to try to keep up on the Facebook Apple II groups when the navigation pane on the left showed the groups I was in with the number of new messages in that group since I last read it. Then they kept updating the look of the site and I was reduced to a maximum of 10 groups in that pane that I had to pin to display there and then they stopped putting the number of new posts there as well. Heck, they used to have a small marker that said "Older" at one point so I knew that I had gotten through all possible unread posts/replies but that went away too.
I have been using offline readers since the BBS days. Canada Remote Systems, GEnie, Delphi, A2Central were all accessed using offline readers and I find it way more convenient to continue to do so.
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I >learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's
decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk.
Is it more of a future-proof community? Is it more searchable than the >Facebook groups? What brings you here?
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I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proofcommunity? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
Many of us are old schoolers. ;)
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proofcommunity? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
Matthew,community? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proof
This is a more direct way of contacting people than FaceBook, and not everyone wishes to have a FaceBook account.dominated by gaming, not something I am interested in.
Unless you are reading the FaceBook pages every few minutes or so, it is virtually impossible to see which are the new messages, and which you are interested in, as though they have threads there, they do not have a clear subject matter. Also they are
Having used Usenet for tha last 30 years or so, I find it far superior to FaceBook...
Cheers - Speccie
Many old stuff still work well. I even use old school BitchX, text mode, shell accounts, etc.
I mainly lurk here these days to improve my Italian. The years of Apple II knowledge available is just a bonus. ;)LOL. Same here.
Matthew,
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I >> learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades
of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more
of a future-proof community? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? >> What brings you here?
This is a more direct way of contacting people than FaceBook, and not everyone
wishes to have a FaceBook account.
Unless you are reading the FaceBook pages every few minutes or so, it is virtually impossible to see which are the new messages, and which you are interested in, as though they have threads there, they do not have a clear subject matter. Also they are dominated by gaming, not something I am interested in.
Having used Usenet for tha last 30 years or so, I find it far superior to FaceBook...
Cheers - Speccie
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021, Ant wrote:
Many old stuff still work well. I even use old school BitchX, text mode, shell accounts, etc.
irssi is more up my alley (the UI is fairly similar).
I wholeheartedly agree with Ewen when it comes to the question of why CSA2 not only endures but is also the preferred medium for some of us Apple II stalwarts.
To his comments I would add that (standing the old proverb on its head) sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures. ;-)
On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 11:36:57 PM UTC-7, apu...@weygants.net wrote:
I mainly lurk here these days to improve my Italian. The years of Apple II knowledgeLOL. Same here.
available is just a bonus. ;)
I am curious as to why CSA2 continues to thrive so . Don't get me wrong, I learn a tremendous amount from CSA2's immediate answers and also it's decades of accessible discussions. I read all the time and sometimes talk. Is it more of a future-proofcommunity? Is it more searchable than the Facebook groups? What brings you here?
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