John Kuthe wrote:
: On Nov 14, 8:41 am, " wrote:
: On Nov 12, 12:23 pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
:
: Do people actually use google to access usenet?
:
: They do if they don't have Usenet access to the group from somewhere,
: like my office. But I like Usenet better.

: Yeah, I liked direct Usenet access better too, using trn in Unix on
: the Sun workstations at school where I discovered newsgroups, before
: the WWW even existed!

: And to think that was only...15 years ago! ;-) Damn, how time flies
: when yer old!

I still use tin with a unix shell access account... course I do admit
I use a cable provider for net access, not a 300baud modem anymore...
I lent my Hayes Smartmodem 300 to someone long ago and I'm pretty sure
they pitched it by now...

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John Nelson
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