In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the argument that usenet should never change seems a little > > heavy-handed and anachronistic. > > No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. Those > alternatives *do* support HTML formatting (often the subset mentioned
... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and are much, much slower. > earlier). However, Usenet is a stranger to most people on the Internet, > even with Usenet access, and hence, there is no real reason to see it > changed into something that is "available" for years and years to more > people: www. > > -- > John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ > Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ > Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html > -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
