On 28 September 2012 11:16, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 September 2012 10:53, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk
wrote:
Actually you are wrong. MSEide+MSEgui uses a mailing list. Some of those
Right, he must have changed over to a mailing list some time after I
On 2012-09-28 10:38, Henry Vermaak wrote:
already explained why I prefer email, but I'm not trying to convert
anyone.
Neither am I. I just pointed out my opinion and experiences. Some seem
to read more into that than I.
It's interesting to note that both fpgui and mse{ide|gui} are using
On 2012-09-26 14:22, Henry Vermaak wrote:
I haven't found a project that uses NNTP for a long time.
fpGUI - GUI Toolkit since 2005/6)
tiOPF - Object Persistence Framework since 1999)
OpenWatcom - C/C++ Compiler,IDE,Debugger,etc.
Indy - Internet components used by Delphi and FPC.
NexusDB -
On 26/09/12 15:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2012-09-26 14:22, Henry Vermaak wrote:
I haven't found a project that uses NNTP for a long time.
fpGUI - GUI Toolkit since 2005/6)
tiOPF - Object Persistence Framework since 1999)
OpenWatcom - C/C++ Compiler,IDE,Debugger,etc.
Indy -
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
There are lots of benefits to NNTP though:
There are a lot of different things here though.
* Classic push NNTP between servers.
* Pull NNTP from a client to a (local) server, correctly called NNRP.
* The headers etc. used as metadata by discussion-group
On 2012-09-27 10:11, Sven Barth wrote:
I think Henry meant that differently.
I understood Henry perfectly. I worked like that too. Desktop and work,
and laptop at home. Maybe our tolerances to what is brain energy is
quite different. Maybe Henry just hasn't bother to learn the shortcuts
or
On 2012-09-27 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
best to organise a backend, particularly in view of typical
discussion-group (innd etc.) servers' very poor resilience to e.g.
abrupt shutdown.
I use 'sn' NNTP Server. It runs on just about any *nix type operating
system. It is ideal for small to
On 27.09.2012 14:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Now these things simply can't be done with Web Forums. 99% of them have
linear views (think Gmail layout here) or hierarchies (of whole
messages), and not just a hierarchy of titles. So you scroll and scroll
and scroll and scroll and
