John Meacham wrote:
There already is an NNTP - mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a
nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email
readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and
fragmentary.
Trouble is, you can't use it like just
From my experience once a forum pops up the mailing list dies.
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:01:45PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
If you have a forum powered by NNTP, you can casually throw in a
hey, nice one time comment as a reply to part of a thread, and
only people interested in that thread have to see your message (or
download it, for that matter).
...
Darrin Chandler wrote:
IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would
be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and
well known features of SMTP.
SMTP is designed for delivering messages point-to-point. If your email
provider incorrectly
On 2010-07-27 19:59 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Darrin Chandler wrote:
IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would
be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and
well known features of SMTP.
SMTP is designed for delivering messages
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:59:40PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
NNTP is
...
It's all true. I used nntp extensively in the 90s. I never emo-quit, I
just stopped using it over time due to waning ISP support and other
reasons made it more of a pain. I have nothing against nntp as a
protocol, but I
On 08:15 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
Other topics I am interested in are served by both a web forum and a
mailing list, usually with different content and participants in both.
In my experience, routing one kind of content to another does not work
very well because of issues of spam
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On 7/26/10 15:54 , Kevin Jardine wrote:
On Jul 26, 6:45 pm, Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote:
Since when do mailing lists not have threading? Web forums with proper
support for threading seem to be few and far apart.
Most of the
On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
you're proof that they exist :)
This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for
example, on
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:37:45PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
you're proof that they exist :)
This
On Monday 26 July 2010 22:10:46, Evan Laforge wrote:
Apart from threading and attachments, are there other
reasons you prefer a forum?
I'm a mailing list guy too, but one possible advantage of a forum is that
it might be easier to search by topic.
Have a problem with type families?
Go to the
On 13:58 Mon 26 Jul , John Meacham wrote:
There already is an NNTP - mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a
nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email
readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and
fragmentary.
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