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Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 4:50:14 PM, starc wrote:
> My question is, why donīt we create a newsgroup
Because newsgroups are very open and hard to control. They are also very
easy to harvest email addresses from.
> forum in a www-page for posting all this stuff.
Because webboards suck. No, that is not an opinion, that is a statement
of fact. No high water mark, no easy way to see what is new for /you/ versus
what is new to the webboard, no decent editor, nothing. Webboards are
pree-BBS on a C=94 (Opex anyone) dialed in from a CoCo 1 w/the old 32 colum
wide display (32x42 IIRC) on a 300bps modem.
> Any of those too solutions would be better, more effective,
> etc... and you wouldnt have to download all those articles each day
> to your mail folders....
You're missing something. They are not better, they are definitely not
more effective, they are very difficult to use, to filter through, to follow.
Hell, you don't even get any of the nifty features that some people want like
SLIME and PGP. Finally, we know we all have an email client... Amazing that,
but it is true, we do. And the email client is designed, quite well in fact,
to allow people to follow conversations.
Mailing lists aren't as easy to harvest email addresses from, aren't as
easy to spam, have a built in high water mark in several different forms, has
a nice editor (even though some of us find it lacking) and is, well designed
for this kind of communication.
Of course the list server they are using (home brew scripting around TB!
core I believe) leaves a /LOT/ to be desired compared to, say, Listar, it is a
far cry better than a newsgroup filled with spam and a webboard which is
impossible to follow.
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