On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
The problem is that a typical web forum these days is not a static page,
it's a web app that is self-refreshing. So as a forumn user, you have a
window or tab opened on the forum, you go to bed, and in the morning the
page is 11 posts longer than when you left.
I see.
Not sure how "typical" such behaviour is.
Personally (coming from Usenet, and used to read Usenet forums, i.e.
newsgroups, via a MAIL client) I sort-of hate forums, or at least the
"maze of little forums all different". I can stand only PhpBB operated
forums, and these are NOT auto-refreshing (or at least they aren't in the
way I use them ... I do keep the forum permanently logged on, but I press
a "new posts" button to refresh the page when I WANT to see if there are
new messages ... since threads are archived in reverse chronological
order, most recent first, I have to take note of the time of the most
recent message before clicking to see whether there is anything new or
not after clicked.
In my opinion a forum is little more than a chat, and I do not care about
it being archived forever (although de facto PhpBB forums do it, Usenet
feeds expired after a while), while a mailing list archive is something
for serious work. In this case a reference to a PRECISE url for that
message on that date of that month is mandatory.
Anyhow, getting a self-refreshing html page is just a matter of adding a
<meta http-equiv=refresh content=nnn> tag to the <head>
Not sure if there is an easy provision to customize the mailman archive
pages with such a tag
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