Le 27/11/2011 20:31, Gour a écrit : > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:25:20 +0000 (UTC) > alex <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's it. To be more beginner-friendly. Not to be that unnecessarily >> complicated and opaque. > > What is not beginner-friendly in this group? > > My mailer allows reading news, I selected digitalmars server, was > offered list of groups, subscribed to the desire ones and that's it. > > Forum will just divide not-too-big community and with dozen of forums > it's so difficult to know what to follow etc. > > Here I can quickly skip over non-interesting threads, quickly mark the > whole tread as read, mark thread as (un)ignore, (un)watch etc. > > However, if you make newsgroup <--> forum gateway, then I don't care for > those wanting to read forums, but I'd say that the problem is not in > 'uncomfortable and obviously outdated newsgroup software', but > 'uncomfortable and obviously incapable newsgroup reader software'. ;) > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > >
The main drawback of newsgroups is the absence of a search feature. Apart from that, I like it.
