[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:56:55 -0400, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> On 7/25/20 9:33 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-07-25 kl. 00:09, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>> In article <rffcf1$e7s$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>> On 7/24/2020 2:51 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I'm posting this via the new Google Groups site.  Still has
>>>>> some rough edges.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I will once again confess to curiosity.
>>>>
>>>> When a decent newsreader does a decent job, and "real" news sites are
>>>> available, would you or anyone use Google?
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?  Why do people use the "lesser" Google groups?
>>>
>>> Why would anyone read a VMS newsgroup on anything but VMS?  :-)
>>>
>>>
>> Why use VMS for *anything* that it is not good at?
>> 
>> 
> How would it not be good at reading USENET or even Google Groups?

I ran ANU News for years on our cluster, feeding out Usenet to our site.


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