[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-03-17, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 15-03-17 07:30, "VAXman- "@SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> posted to comp.os.vms and also to the VMS-SIG list.  The new-fangled social
>> media mechanisms might be fine for others but I find them way too busy with
>> way too much noise to sift through to find anything of real interest. 
>
>
> For Twitter, the only "noise" you get is from those people you have
> chosen to follow.
>
> So, if you only follow Sue, you would get this:
>
> https://twitter.com/mamavms/
>
> YOu can follow other people too if you want. With the twitter app
> (sorry, no VMS version), you get traffic from anyone you follow. You
> don't see traffic from people you don't follow, unless someone you
> follow retweets something they found elsewhere.
>
> There are serious people on twitter, and not-serious people. Whom you
> follow dictates the value of twitter to you.

And if you don't like any of the available Twitter apps you can write
your own.  The API is published and knocking up a read-only app in
Python was simple enough when I did it on a course last year.

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