Subj : Re: Paper route To : DARYL STOUT From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Fri Oct 04 2019 16:24:00 -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 09-24-19 14:12 <=- DS>> I didn't think a text browser existed. NB>> It still does... I use Lynx, and there is also Links, both are text NB>> browsers, and at least the first works quite well in DOS... both come NB>> out of the *nix environment... DS> Interesting. I've been busy getting a new square dance website up, DS> that I haven't had much time to investigate. Then, we've also had DS> thunderstorms with much needed rainfall...so, that means little to no DS> computer or BBS work. At least you got some of the rain you needed... :) Once you get the website up, you could check out Lynx and Links (we call them "the cat" and "the chain")... One does have to work harder to see any graphic content of the page, but it saves one from clicking on something one really doesn't want to be... shows you what it leads to.... NB>> Richard uses SlimJet which is a stripped down version of Chrome, if I NB>> understand correctly... I've used that on his Windows machine when I NB>> have to access the health care portals, or get my digital coupons NB>> clipped on the Wegmans site.... DS> Never heard of that one. Nor had I until he started using it... something else you might want to look for... :) NB>> Required iPad...? That would sour the deal from the get-go... DS> That's what I understand. Why would they charge so much for the DS> Sunday paper otherwise?? I talked to a couple of square dancers, and DS> they said that when they were in New England, a Sunday edition of the DS> Boston Globe was $6. To me, that's too much for a paper. Yet, without DS> that iPad (if you can't read it any other way), there's no point in DS> getting a subscription. I have no interest in paying that sort of money, or in being forced to read something online, whether on an iPad or a computer screen... I'm not that addicted to the paper, although I do miss it from time to time... NB>> I pay an extra $10 a year for one of my genealogy memberships so that NB>> they will send me the newsletter in the mail instead of electronically. DS> Not many places do that...but I'd be afraid the Post Office would DS> lose my copy. They've lost several medical bills and payments for me. DS> So, when I call them, I say that "Either you take an over the phone DS> payment, or you don't get your money". Why should I pay an extra $25 to DS> $50 or more to guarantee delivery, then it still doesn't arrive. It's DS> $35 every time I have to do a stop payment. So far, payments and bills haven't gone missing for us, but the occasional magazine issue has.... so far it's just been replaceable things... a little more often, they've been delayed, but then they do eventually show up... :) NB>> I've read the occasional story online, where someone has sent me a NB>> direct link to that story... that I can handle with my text browser... NB>> and that lets me in without a subscription... DS> You don't find many sites that like anymore. You usually get a DS> message that "you've used up all your free views". Either I don't do it often enough to run out of free views, or the direct links I'm given slip by that part of the site... or both.... DS>> Darn, now I have a craving for chocolate iced donuts!! :P NB>> Can't imagine why... DS> I knew there was something I forgot to get at the store the other DS> day!! Oh, well... ttyl neb .... Energizer Bunny still missing. Search party keeps going, ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .