I used to be a big fan of newsgroups, but I've fallen out of love with them for a number of reasons. They are incredibly difficult to moderate, keeping them free from SPAM is difficult at best, and it's a metaphor that people are going to less and less. I'd say that if we were going to set up a newsgroup, it should be pretty far down the priority list.
-- Kurt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hackers] Fwd: User account details for joshk at Indiana for Dean 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
