Moose Finklestein made the following keystrokes: >So make sure you're not spending tons of effort to replace your wheel >with an identical wheel.
Actually this feels like tilting at windmills. It's a battle already lost, but I agree with you whole heartedly. Actually I'd say that dealing with "forums" in many cases is like dealing with a wooden wagon wheel compared to the capabilites in some of the modern email indexing tools. By modern, I'll go back to using majordomo mailing lists and MHonArc. Message threading, keyword searches, archives by date, subject, thread, ... With a mailing list, the message shows up in a location that I can deal with it in ways that I want to. I'm not tied to some browser that I need to go searching to find the new stuff. RSS feeds are possible, but again it pushes me into a toolset that doesn't feel natural. (GUI == God Ugly Interface) I don't live in a browser. Users have the capability of using their editor of choice to put the right words in place. It's real data without getting the noise of colors, changing text sizes, things that don't render properly because of crap html.... Migration from older versions of archive are possible as well. Searching mailing list archives has been much easier for me than most forums. Then again I'm a throwback to days when people still did their work using command line tools. I'm one that thinks most "social networks" are very closely tied to "social diseases" in that the more you get involved the more likely you are going to pick up an infection. I can use all the tools, but when it comes to preferences.... Prime-Crumudgeon --Gene /~\ The ASCII Gene Rackow email: [email protected] \ / Ribbon Campaign Cyber Security Office voice: 630-252-7126 X Against HTML Argonne National Lab / \ Email! 9700 S. Cass Ave. / Argonne, IL 60439 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
