I don’t mean to disparage Usenet. Just pointing out that it’s old and now somewhat obscure. Email, by the way has benefited from its universality and consequently, the continuous refinement of email apps.
Paul > On Jan 10, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:07 PM, Comcast <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Usenet is a relatively ancient system for posting information, messages and >> the like. It was originally phone based relying on dial up modems. It’s now >> internet based. It’s very basic and straightforward. Although you need an >> access app, you don’t have to subscribe to a service like Facebook. It’s >> rather inelegant but old timers embrace it as a computer geek badge of honor. > > I resemble that. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet > > I looked up RFC 850, and it dates to 1983, so the transition from UUCP to the > internet is about 40 years old, so it’s not like it’s recent. One could also > say a lot of the same things about email (and yes red4est used to get its > email via dial up uucp and bang path) but it’s not like people tend to > disparage email as something that people used to do over their phones. > > Hmm, the more things change… > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
