-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 08:28:56PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
[...] > Last time I looked, Thunderbird & Exchange both support news - a > newsgroup looks just like another email account. And Gnus. That's exactly the point all those "yay, modern, shiny" folks don't "get": SMTP, NNTP and IMAP are abstract (and relatively stable) interfaces which allow the development of a bunch of different clients which suit a hugely diverse user base, even as weird folks as me. User is queen: GOOD On a "web forum", me, the user, gotta put up with whatever dorky "web GUI" some random "startup" has come up with. And they often are dorky for a reason, the provider is basing its business model on this (branding, embedding ads, sucking up data, you name it). There's often a "REST interface", but it is at a much lower abstraction level as SMTP et al -- and it is a moving target: often, the server and client parts are in one repository, tied by a framework. You can change the interface spec at a whim, since the browser downloads the new client code. That means that me, as a user have to put up with whatever cruel abomination the provider has thought up for me. Provider is king: BAD. That's at least my take on it. It isn't something we all are going to agree on, as in the GPL vs BSD/MIT thing -- your opinion will depend on which side you lean towards (my "good"/"bad" above reflect my personal leanings, shouldn't you have noticed :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAluGTDwACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ5PgCfa7itA0ldS3a+7saXnDmoO1wn dscAn0UM0kfzE/YCnpb10PHYLbkZwalF =nqgA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
