Well before Usenet there was BBS and IRC. Everything has it's time, it's just that time is more accelerated then what us middle aged and older folk remember it being, not that long ago. ;)
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:37 PM, The Real Bev <bashley...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/18/2011 04:18 AM, Stephen wrote: > > Only time will tell, Bev. I'm reading the tea leaves or as a scribe put >> it; "the writing on the wall". ;) >> >> It's also another way to revive a slow list ... >> > > If we want new members, we might start a dscussion about finding > bomb-making websites. I understand those NSA people are a really funny > bunch. > Now you've done it. The computers in Fort Meade, Maryland have re-targeted the satellites for your co-ordinates. > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM, The Real Bev <bashley...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bashley...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 10/17/2011 10:34 AM, mhenriday wrote: >> >> Have to agree with Stephen here - this indeed one of many >> prologues to the omen coming on.... >> >> So what does this actually mean? Our software won't work any more? >> We'll be denied access to our existing albums unless we join google+ >> (which stinks badly, BTW)? What? >> > > When google started up I was so GLAD that somebody had taken over the > dejanews stuff. And then they put out MORE cool stuff. But somehow in the > last year or so I have begun to feel a bit uneasy about google. Not sure if > that's caused by a lot of other people having misgivings about the > do-n0-evil thing or by something I've noticed myself. > > OTOH, I kind of like the display of our picasa albums as a sort of collage > via google+. Not as a replacement, just something extra. > > I don't want to run chrome, and I really hate the way google+ works. The > Better Facebook guy (he has to change the name to something else pretty > soon) has made enough improvements to facebook that it's useful, although > nowhere near as good as usenet. I'm really sorry that so many > usenet-friends have abandoned usenet and migrated to facebook. > > -- > Cheers, Bev > ------------------------------**---------------- > Linux: The penguin is mightier than the sword > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-labs-picasa-for-linux@** > googlegroups.com <google-labs-picasa-for-linux@googlegroups.com>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-labs-picasa-for-linux+**unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-labs-picasa-for-linux%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/google-labs-picasa-for-**linux?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en> > . > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to google-labs-picasa-for-linux@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-labs-picasa-for-linux+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
