On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:18:46PM -0700, Lynn Siprelle wrote: > On mailing lists vs bulletin boards: I'm with you on that one. Mailing > lists scale much better than bulletin boards, except that searching a > Yahoo group sucks rocks. I'm hep with the gateway vibe myself.
> Discuss. :) NNTP. I know everyone seems to want to go ape over "how complicated it is" and "how no one seems to know how to use it", but, you know, "Death of Usenet Predicted; Film at 11". And it *is* designed for that sort of discussion. Flutterby, among other basically-web-forum-y venues has just built an NNTP backend to allow the use of a news client to follow discussions. So why *not* dean.* Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
