But it seems that your mind never grows old like your body does. When you attempt what was easy 10 years ago, the inability of your body to carry out the tasks asked of it reminds you of your real age.
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Which rather brings the discussion full circle, at least in terms of Usenet, and the death thereof. Yes, we all remember dial up, typing replies, briefly connecting, uploading one's own replies, downloading everyone else's, reading then repeat all evening. Online forums and social media as youngsters know them now would just not work under those circumstances. Usenet and mailing lists were perfect for the circumstances.
Facebook is Usenet with pictures.
Arrrgh, 'sendmail'. Hideous, hideous, hideous.
Although I switched to Postfix quite quickly.
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Robert
Was it Sophia Lauren who, at the age of 75, was asked by an interviewer "at what age do women lose interest in sex". She replied "I don't know, I'll ask my mother".
Robert
and do people remember the days when you had to download 'artistic photographs' in lots of pieces and then cobble them together? I don't remember the name of the group but its subtitle was "gigabytes of copyright violations".
Robert
That was before Turnpike, then?
That's still going on, only for movies. Lots of people don't even realise that the non-binary parts of Usenet even exist.
But the 'threading' is inadequate.
Virtually everything about Facebook is functionally inadequate.
And the interface is incredibly shit.
Not really. You select the people and subjects you are interested in. No Facebook group I subscribe to would put up with the amount of OT stuff on here. Or any forum, come to that.
I didn't discover Usenet until the early 2000's, I had heard of it, but just couldn't work out how to get to actually make use of it. I had used email and some home Internet via Free something-or-other for many years.
Now I have a raft of devices all making use of my broadband, but I am always left wondering if I might be missing out on something, like I missed out on Usenet for many years. One thing I really ought to do, is get my head around setting up an email server, rather than the mess I have at present of each system grabbing mail from my accounts when its turned on.
You don't need a server just set the clients to use IMAP.
Sounds like each device you have is configured to delete mail from server once downloaded. You don't have to do that. You can configure each client to leave mail on server (i.e. never delete it), and have a "main" device which controls when mail *is* deleted.
it's not as good as that.
Tim Streater expressed precisely :
That is what I presently do, but I am conscious of the amount of mail I receive and limited space on the ISP's mail server.
I was running all my internet stuff on an Amiga at the time, so no Turnpike support...
yes I suppose Usenet does give us a chuckle now and again, usually the same posters.
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