On Fri Nov-08-2013 10:30, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
   Hi,   
      
    PQ> In a message to All you wrote:   
      
    RN> I should have known that as soon as I said something about NASA, they   
    RN> would send me an article, so here it is:   
      
    PQ> Poor boy.  Them's the breaks.  ;-)   
      
    PQ> If you think that's a good'un, listen to this...  I'm still signed   
    PQ> up with googlegroups.com, basically because I'm lazy and I thought   
    PQ> my situation was 'safe' (sort of thing).   
      
   I'm sorry to say that you don't have a monopoly on laziness.  (-:   
      
    PQ> Now, googlegroups used to send me daily "digests" of NASA posts in    
    PQ> two newsgroups which worked well from March 2010 to September    
    PQ> 2011.  (I never used their on-line groups cr#p, except to config    
    PQ> an email tunnel thing into a local echo.)   
      
   google has been (and continuies) bugging me to install Chrome, which I refuse   
   to do and worse, they discontinued google ig this month for who knows what   
   reason.  We don't need no steenkin' Chrome as long as we have FireFox.   
      
   And Apple is even worse.   
      
   [Rant mode on]   
   I received 5 (count 'em) app upate notices for my cell phone, but in order to   
   install them, I have to, at my age, read 54 screens full of their new policy   
   and agree to the totality of it or the updated apps won't install.  Did you   
   ever in your life have to try to do that on a cell phone?  I wouldn't try even   
   if my vision were 20/20.  So, without knowing, they have given me something to   
   complain about and I'm doing that on Monday.  You're probably wondering why I   
   won't read the new policy on their web site, right?  The answer is because of   
   the enormity of what I have to read.  I think 54 pages to read is a ridiculous   
   assumption on their part because it would have been much simpler just to make   
   available the "new stuff" and agree to it.   
   [Rant mode off]   
      
    PQ> Suddenly, on 2 Sep 2011, nothing came through the pipeline and    
    PQ> I've seen nothin more since till the night of 29 October 2013!     
      
   LOL!   
      
    PQ> Yep, you guessed right.  I received _a_ digest, containing posts    
    PQ> for the previous week!  Evidently, something in the plumbing at    
    PQ> Google cleared momentarily.  :)   
      
   We could blame that on George W Bush.  (-:   
      
    PQ> I count myself lucky to have this echo as a primary source of   
    PQ> NASA-related news. The only time I go on-line for  NASA-related   
    PQ> stuff these days is to follow-up on EwwToob flick links posted   
    PQ> herein.   
      
   I had to change it from what it was because I don't believe in that paranormal   
   stuff, and while at one time I thought mankind was the only species capable of   
   space travel, and that the universes are there for us to explore, that line of   
   thought has swung 180 degrees.  However, I am very glad that our Solar System   
   isn't any nearer to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.   
      
    PQ> Thanks, Roger.   
      
   Any time, pal.  As long as I'm breathing the posts will contimue.   
      
    PQ> ... Old swimmers never die, they just fall off their blocks.  ---   
      
   ...I read Paul Quinn's messages for the taglines.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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