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From: gtr on 12 Jun 2010 19:58 On 2010-06-12 11:08:55 -0700, Doc O'Leary said: >> How many developers from other companies show up here when their >> products are mentioned? > > If a company makes an email client, I'd expect them to respond to email. > If a company makes an IM client, I'd expect them to be available for > chats. Having expectations of software suppliers is only right. I expect them to make me a sandwich for lunch but am always dissappointed. > Since Panic makes a bloody Usenet news reader, they had *better* > be here eating their own dog food. The fact that they're not goes a > long way to explaining why they can't implement even basic filtering > right. There are two kinds of software. Those that do what I need and the other kind. The other kind are written by people whose children should be ground in a pestle for all eternity. That's only fair! -- If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
From: Doc O'Leary on 13 Jun 2010 13:44 In article <vilain-5165F0.12001012062010(a)news.individual.net>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: > There are a bunch of developers out there > who just want your money. Brian Clarke was chief among them. Brian might be a bit prickly, but he didn't strike me as greedy. My experience with Thoth was that I was mostly happy with it, but when I sent some feedback emails making suggestions, he made a bigger deal out of it than it was and just refunded my money. Not the best customer service but, on the flip side, I was allowed to use the registered version for free until system updates made it too unstable to deal with. On the whole, a much better experience than I've had with Panic. Of course, the real unsung hero in all this is Simon Fraser. After all the bad experience with paid Usenet clients, I keep returning to MT-NewsWatcher. Not the most flashy of software on the Mac, but it gets the job done at an unbeatable price. I still have a longing to write my own NNTP framework and put together an interface for it on both the Mac and iOS, but until that makes business sense I'm expecting I'll use MT-NewsWatcher until Usenet finally fades out completely. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too.
From: Howard S Shubs on 14 Jun 2010 13:09 In article <everyday-85D524.12521209062010(a)mx01.eternal-september.org>, Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > Because usenet is a dying resource, very few people know about or use > it, and more and more ISPs no longer carry news groups. Maybe September 1993 will finally end soon. -- May all your good dreams and fine wishes come true! - The Wizard May joy be yours all the days of your life! - Phina Don't keep score if you're on the same team. - ?
From: Howard S Shubs on 14 Jun 2010 14:27 In article <droleary.usenet-400A6C.12442113062010(a)news.twtelecom.net>, Doc O'Leary <droleary.usenet(a)2q2010.subsume.com> wrote: > and iOS, but until that makes business sense I'm expecting I'll use > MT-NewsWatcher until Usenet finally fades out completely. In that case, you may be using MTNW for a very long time. :-) -- May all your good dreams and fine wishes come true! - The Wizard May joy be yours all the days of your life! - Phina Don't keep score if you're on the same team. - ?
From: Wes Groleau on 15 Jun 2010 12:39
On 06-15-2010 10:54, erilar wrote: > Just so it outlasts me 8-) I enjoy it and have NO interest in Facebook, :-) I resisted relative's “selling” of FB for years. But when my son decided to drive a thousand miles with almost no money, leaving his phone at home, and ignored the oil warning light until it would not be denied in the middle of Kansas … Now I kind of enjoy it, though I do see (see, not _do_) a lot of why one wag coined the term “social nitwitting sites.” Of course, Usenet has its own share of stupidity … -- Wes Groleau First Language Acquisition observed up—close & personal http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1349 |