I would remind those uploading he space calendar to the
sci.space.news group that we are now in April. Also nobody ever puts
news up there these days. I find this most irritating.
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Brian Gaff wrote:
I would remind those uploading he space calendar to the
sci.space.news group that we are now in April. Also nobody ever puts
news up there these days. I find this most irritating.
Me too. I wrote the person who posts the news and no reply.
I think it's an end to another usenet group.
Its corporate amnesia. As soon as the previous person goes, moves, dies or whatever, no record has been made of what they did, so any new person has no idea what went on.
In article <pa4rum$kao$1@news.albasani.net>, briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
says...
Its corporate amnesia. As soon as the previous person goes, moves, dies
or
whatever, no record has been made of what they did, so any new person has
no
idea what went on.
This isn't a corporate job. It's a volunteer job. The fact is that
Usenet News is just a tiny fraction of what it was in the 1980s, due to
web pages replacing it. It took 30 years for this to happen, so I think
it's been a pretty good ride.
Jeff
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These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
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But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one cannot have web addresses
on a news post, but basic details are far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this or more heres all over the bleedin place
apparantly randomly distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.
But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less
easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one
cannot have web addresses on a news post, but basic details are
far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this
or more heres all over the bleedin place apparantly randomly
distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.
Agreed, but Usenet News just isn't as popular as it used to be.
The number of active posters in the sci.space groups can be counted
on one person's fingers. :-(
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Jeff Findley wrote:
But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less
easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one
cannot have web addresses on a news post, but basic details are
far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this
or more heres all over the bleedin place apparantly randomly
distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.
Agreed, but Usenet News just isn't as popular as it used to be.
The number of active posters in the sci.space groups can be counted
on one person's fingers. :-(
With all that Java Script abuse, the web is becoming unusable.
Add in all that commercial primacy, surveillance and censorship,
it's becoming useless.
Whenever a popup balloon interrupts my reading, I disconnect from the
web site. If every body did that, would the web monsters learn?
In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1804051936370.7488@panix5.panix.com>, marsh@panix.com says...
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Jeff Findley wrote:
But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less
easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one
cannot have web addresses on a news post, but basic details are
far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this
or more heres all over the bleedin place apparantly randomly
distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.
Agreed, but Usenet News just isn't as popular as it used to be.
The number of active posters in the sci.space groups can be counted
on one person's fingers. :-(
With all that Java Script abuse, the web is becoming unusable.
Add in all that commercial primacy, surveillance and censorship,
it's becoming useless.
Whenever a popup balloon interrupts my reading, I disconnect from the
web site. If every body did that, would the web monsters learn?
Yeah, I think I'm going to take one of my spare Raspberry Pi computers
and install Pihole on it to kill all the abusive ads.
Jeff
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All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone.
These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
employer, or any organization that I am a member of.
Yes some sites now won't let you use them if you kill their adverts.
This includes catch up video sites as well. I have no issue with
adverts, its the ridiculously intrusive way they are used that
pisses me off.
I also boycott sites using cap chars to decide if you are a human or not. they often include an audio version, often called a 'challenge' which
usually means they are completely unintelligible.
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