DeMoN_LaG wrote:
> JTK wrote:
>
>>>> This better? I have to apologize, I am not nearly nerdly enough to
>>>> have known
>>>> that you needed a space after the two minuses. And I'm using a
>>>> web-based
>>>> newsgroup "reader", which Maozilla won't interface to to do such
>>>> wonderful
>>>> things for me.
>>>>
>>> *gasp* You are going to say that Mozilla can't access a web based
>>> news service through the news client???
>>>
>>
>> No, I just did say it. Sheesh, now you can't tell the difference
>> between past
>> and future?!?
>>
>>
>>> Oh my god, how has this feature been left out.
>>>
>>
>> It'd impact AOL's bottom line.
>
>
>
> Actually no. See, Mozilla isn't owned by AOL. The only limiting factor
> would be the people who own the free web news services objecting to
> their customers being able to use a news client. News client = no
> people on website looking at banner ads = no revenue. What happened to
> your business course there?
>
>
>>
>>
>>> I mean, IE has had this for, what, 5, 10 years now? Oh? IE doesn't
>>> have this feature? What is this?
>>>
>>
>> "This" is you going off the deep end yet again. I'm using IE to use this
>> web-based newsreader. IE doesn't have a newsreader.
>
>
>
> No it's not me going off the deep end. Mozilla's news client is a NNTP
> compatible, AKA any standard news server news client. It is not a web
> browser for browsing a news site. Mozilla's browser component does this
> quite nicely. Or do you not know how to type a URL?
>
>
>>
>> Holy Christ.
>>
>>
>>> No browser/news client anywhere has this feature?
>>>
>>
>> Not to my knowledge, no. Sure seems like somebody could really be...
>> innovative... and add it to theirs. Especially if there was an "Open"
>> one
>> around, somewhere.
>
>
>
> Yeah, it would be an interesting addition. However, since there is no
> standard for web based news, and you couldn't parse the HTML files the
> server generates for you very easily, it would be quite a difficult
> task. Considering how much you bitch, maybe you oughta take a few years
> of Computer basics and maybe then you can get some C++ classes, and then
> you can write some code to do that.
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Oh, so you are a jackass too?
>>>
>>
>> No, I'm more of a "brick hithouse". Skidmark.
>
>
>
> WTF is a brick hithouse?
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Wow, I'm impresssed. You lost the argument for yourself.
>>>
>>
>> Well I'd pretty much have to lose it myself, wouldn't I? I mean
>> seriously,
>> considering the "competition"... hehehehe, I can't even type the word
>> with a
>> straight face!
>
>
>
> I love your posts. I get home from work at night, and I sit down and
> what do I have? It's like watching Comedy Central on the web.
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Genius
>>>
>>
>> Punctuation-forgetter.
>
>
> I fail to see the point. This isn't english class. When your whole
> argument has been reduced to pointing out grammar and punctuation you
> really have no argument left. Why not just be quiet, and maybe less
> people will laugh at you (unless they dig up an old post for kicks)
>
>
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