On 2/11/2016 1:23 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/11/16 11:39 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:34:41 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Friend in Michigan insists on using an android device instead of a
proper mac device for just about everything, including posting to
usenet. I have a crappy bit of android usenet software on my tablet, but
it is nothing I would recommend.

Anyone know of a really top notch android news reader/poster who might
post the name and url of its source here so I can pass it along?

Thanks!

His google must be broken or you are just trolling

Of course Google points inward first
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ewsgroup&hl=en


Here are reviews of other readers

http://lifehacker.com/the-best-news-...ndroid-5807863


https://usenetreviewz.com/best-usenet-clients/

http://android.newsgroupstats.hk/



We've both googled the subject and have come up with very little.

The first one on your list is the one I use occasionally on my android
tablet and it is also the one my friend uses. One of my friend's
complaints is that he has yet to discover a way to mark a bunch of new
posts that don't interest him "read" so they disappear from his listing
without having to go through them one at a time. The app sort of has a
feature that does this, but it only works sporadically. The app I use on
my iphone has the feature and it works properly, as does the full
Thunderbird app I mostly use on my desktop computer.

Feedly and several of the others seem more suited for bringing in RSS
feeds and all sorts of media that go beyond the needs of simply being
able to read and post to usenet.

Still looking for recommendations for my friend.

Problem is you and your buddie are too lazy to read instructions. Or
maybe you read and don't understand.
That's why they make iphones; for dummies.

On 2/11/2016 2:07 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:06:24 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/11/2016 11:39 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:34:41 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Friend in Michigan insists on using an android device instead of a
proper mac device for just about everything, including posting to
usenet. I have a crappy bit of android usenet software on my tablet, but
it is nothing I would recommend.

Anyone know of a really top notch android news reader/poster who might
post the name and url of its source here so I can pass it along?

Thanks!

His google must be broken or you are just trolling

Of course Google points inward first
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ewsgroup&hl=en

Here are reviews of other readers

http://lifehacker.com/the-best-news-...ndroid-5807863

https://usenetreviewz.com/best-usenet-clients/

http://android.newsgroupstats.hk/


Harry's been given the link to the only viable newsgroup reader
available. I imagine he's busily trying to figure it out. I'd be happy
to help him if he has specific detailed questions he needs answered.
After all, what are friends for, anyway? :-)

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.

If you can point a finger you can run an ifone. no brains necessary.
That's not to say all ifone users are dummies. Some are not.

On 2/11/2016 2:18 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:06:24 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/11/2016 11:39 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:34:41 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Friend in Michigan insists on using an android device instead of a
proper mac device for just about everything, including posting to
usenet. I have a crappy bit of android usenet software on my
tablet, but
it is nothing I would recommend.

Anyone know of a really top notch android news reader/poster who might
post the name and url of its source here so I can pass it along?

Thanks!

His google must be broken or you are just trolling

Of course Google points inward first
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ewsgroup&hl=en


Here are reviews of other readers

http://lifehacker.com/the-best-news-...ndroid-5807863


https://usenetreviewz.com/best-usenet-clients/

http://android.newsgroupstats.hk/


Harry's been given the link to the only viable newsgroup reader
available. I imagine he's busily trying to figure it out. I'd be happy
to help him if he has specific detailed questions he needs answered.
After all, what are friends for, anyway? :-)

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

So why can't you make an android app work?

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:06:24 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/11/2016 11:39 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:34:41 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Friend in Michigan insists on using an android device instead of a
proper mac device for just about everything, including posting to
usenet. I have a crappy bit of android usenet software on my tablet, but
it is nothing I would recommend.

Anyone know of a really top notch android news reader/poster who might
post the name and url of its source here so I can pass it along?

Thanks!

His google must be broken or you are just trolling

Of course Google points inward first
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ewsgroup&hl=en

Here are reviews of other readers

http://lifehacker.com/the-best-news-...ndroid-5807863

https://usenetreviewz.com/best-usenet-clients/

http://android.newsgroupstats.hk/


Harry's been given the link to the only viable newsgroup reader
available. I imagine he's busily trying to figure it out. I'd be happy
to help him if he has specific detailed questions he needs answered.
After all, what are friends for, anyway? :-)

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Let's see...got in a dig at the military. Wonder why the Christians got left off the
hook?

Doesn't that Vietnam 'service' of yours count for something?
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?
BTW warships have not used coal since Teddy Roosevelt's Great White
Fleet. I wasn't a snipe anyway. My job was above the main deck. So was
Richard's.
I really tried to learn as many jobs on the ship as I could and there
are a lot of things going on there. (Welding, machine shop, small
boats and the whole ordinance department).
That is where the CG has it all over the Navy. They want you to know
more than one job. Think of it is being a non-union shop.

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:08:03 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?

LOL! Looks like he'd learn his lesson with making up whoppers one day. Or at least think it through before he types.

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

===

Whoa, there's another Harry Tale we haven't hear before. Did the
Chicoms use the computers to develop nuclear weapons? That would be a
nice embellishment.

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:50:02 -0500 (EST), Keyser Soze wrote:

Wrote in message:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?
BTW warships have not used coal since Teddy Roosevelt's Great White
Fleet. I wasn't a snipe anyway. My job was above the main deck. So was
Richard's.
I really tried to learn as many jobs on the ship as I could and there
are a lot of things going on there. (Welding, machine shop, small
boats and the whole ordinance department).
That is where the CG has it all over the Navy. They want you to know
more than one job. Think of it is being a non-union shop.


Oh, sorry. I was the manual writer for the software, the
application program. Might have been a Burroughs or Control
Data. I accessed for testing from a terminal in bethesda.


Whoops. Caught again, eh?
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:35:56 -0500,
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

===

Whoa, there's another Harry Tale we haven't hear before. Did the
Chicoms use the computers to develop nuclear weapons? That would be a
nice embellishment.

I am having a little trouble with the time line. 1965 in Bethesda?
When was he at that Kansas college and the paper? How old is this guy?

On 2/11/16 8:03 PM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:50:02 -0500 (EST), Keyser Soze wrote:

Wrote in message:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?
BTW warships have not used coal since Teddy Roosevelt's Great White
Fleet. I wasn't a snipe anyway. My job was above the main deck. So was
Richard's.
I really tried to learn as many jobs on the ship as I could and there
are a lot of things going on there. (Welding, machine shop, small
boats and the whole ordinance department).
That is where the CG has it all over the Navy. They want you to know
more than one job. Think of it is being a non-union shop.


Oh, sorry. I was the manual writer for the software, the
application program. Might have been a Burroughs or Control
Data. I accessed for testing from a terminal in bethesda.


Whoops. Caught again, eh?
--



What? Are you on drugs? I wrote the user manual for the software for the
weather program, and no, I'm not a weather expert. The job was to take
the procedures to run the software, how and where to enter variables,
and how to get the software to puke out answers. It took a month of
interviews and training for me to begin to write the instructions in
simple English that could easily be used in China by English speaking
techs and terminal operators who could then show Chinese speaking
operators how to participate. Surely with all your good job skills and
army training, you could have done something similar, eh?