On 2/10/01 12:28 AM, "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of the web-only solutions attempt to reinvent solved problems badly
> (such as threading). NNTP has had over a decade to get some of this stuff
> right and has learned at least a little from its mistakes.
The more you talk about this and the more I think about it, the more I'm
intrigued. Do you have any sites you can point me to where they've done
this? I want to go do some research....
> Compare how
> easy it is to follow a thread in a high-traffic Usenet newsgroup to how
> hard it is to read a thread in thread order on Slashdot. Not to mention
> that all of the filtering stuff that Slashdot tries to give you is still
> mostly inferior (except for the moderation level stuff, which is rather
> interesting and should be doable in NNTP with some custom headers in the
> overview)
You aren't planning to implement the Accolade header after all these years?
(grin)
I've actually been heavily researching the slashdot style boards the last
few weeks. They have some interesting plusses and minuses. I find I prefer
the variant at www.kuro5hin.org better than slashdot itself, and they aren't
really community tools (they're information concentrators), but I'll save
people from having to listen to me babble about that unless you really want
to hear (it'll eventually show up on www.chuqui.com when I can get it
written up). Very useful tools for some things, but still very raw in terms
of development maturity, and not really a great community tool.
--
Chuq Von Rospach, Internet Gnome <http://www.chuqui.com>
[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Yes, yes, I've finally finished my home page. Lucky you.
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen
asleep yet.
