[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

[Ben Finney]

Susan Koziel <kataryna_dragonweaver at yahoo.com> writes:

> I don't commonly read the forums despite the fact they are organized.

> I find that since they are so busy that I can't keep up with them,
> and there are too many me too! statements. The mailing list, even at
> 200+ messages is something I like better.

Yes, a good mail user agent is still immensely better for reading
discussions than any web application, especially when the discussions
are many and varied. Threading, kill-files, full text editing,
standard message protocols, efficient message transfer, all these
advantages and more are not to be found in a web application.

I would be overjoyed if the SJ Games forums were to be made available
via NNTP, since then I could use a standard, flexible newsreader of my
choice to get much of the same power of a mail user agent.

The web forum application, though, is hideously inflexible and
cumbersome to use.

> I wasn't ever that active on the pyramid newsgroup either - except
> in the occasional play-test discussion. Thus existence of news
> group, and forums don't effect me one way or the other.... but I'd
> really hate to see the mailing list die completely.

Let's continue to use it then, and make it irresistable :-)

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Ben Finney