On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 3:46:54 PM UTC-7, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 7:17:23 AM UTC-10, jmcquown wrote:
> > On 7/4/2015 9:51 AM, wrote:
> > > You noticed that, too. Don't you just love these
> > > 20+ year old threads that have been resurrected?
> >
> > That's Google Groups for ya. The very thing dsi1 thinks should be the
> > "future" of Usenet. LOL
> >
> > Jill
>
> I never said that Google Groups should be anything. Any idiot that's not blind to what's going on around him would see that the world is moving away from desktop computing and onto mobile devices and Google OSes. We're moving away from using desktop client programs like Forte Agent and Microsoft Office and towards web-based programs. If you're such a smartypants, you tell me how I'm suppose to post to Usenet on a Chromebook?
>

I have seen the future, and it is an iPhone half the size of an iPad.
Everybody over 40 has trouble staring at a tiny screen, and the
necessity of using a specific app to perform any task -- resulting
in screen after screen of tiny icons -- makes mobile devices all but
unusable.