[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

[Rupert Boleyn]

Ben Finney wrote:
> 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 think that this horse has long since bolted, more's the pity, at least 
when it comes to the general internet using public.