Bob Hutchison wrote:
The only better solution to this is NNTP. Unfortunately, USENET is
pretty much dead because of spam and finding a good news reader
these days is hard (actually, some ISPs are no longer supporting
NNTP). BTW, if you are on windows, check out Agent
<http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php> if you want to see what I
think is a fabulous mail/news reader (they combine the two)... I
wish this was available on the Mac.
The problem with web based forums is a) their functionality sucks
(yes, this is my opinion, and that's the point); and, b) you have to
go to them. Going to something is fundamentally the wrong way about.
This is why email, news (despite the spam), and weblogs are either
so entrenched or such active areas of development.
I agree with you, Bob. I REALLY wish that this list was available as
a Usenet group. As a matter of fact, it would probably be pretty easy
to have this list mirrored to gmane which hosts many other such
programming mailing lists. Then people who prefer could use a good
NNTP reader (I use Thoth on the Mac most of the time for this) and
those who don't want the change could just keep using email. That
would be the best of both worlds for everyone.
-Rodney
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