19 Sep
2007
19 Sep
'07
9:36 p.m.
Jerome,
Your ISP should provide access to an NNTP server as part of your basic
service. I just tried to connect to VMSNet groups via my ISP's server
using Thunderbird as the client and it worked. The pdp-11 group seems to
be the only one that is still active.
Jim
Jules Richardson wrote:
Golan Klinger wrote:
This thread is off-topic so please forgive my
posting this follow-up.
It actually got me wondering when apps started really pushing (or
forcing) functionality on users outside of their core reason for
existing (such as a web browser trying to be an email client, or an
email client trying to be a usenet client etc.)
I suspect that aspect *is* on topic :-) Netscape circa mid-90's is one
of the first culprits I can think of, but doubtless there were others
long before then? (Note I'm not talking about small bundled utility
apps or functionality which is related to the central purpose of an
application - more the cases where something that was recognised as
doing one job suddenly branched out and started offering something
completely different)
[Not a practice that I agree with at all - memory and disk footprint
often increases, and stability goes down, all for extra functionality
which a separate dedicated app nearly always handles better]