[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

[Ben Finney]

Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn at ihug.co.nz> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > 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.

That's a non sequitur. I'm not saying that I want web access *removed*
and replaced by NNTP; I'm saying that the advantages of NNTP access to
discussion forums are great enough that it should be *available*.

Whether people want to continue using a cumbersome interface for
whatever reason, is irrelevant to me, to the extent that I'm not
impacted by another person's choice of access method.

So, to the extent that those who choose to do so have full exercise of
the power of an NNTP client to participate in the discussion forums,
there is no need for “the general internet using public” (whoever
that may be) to be adversely affected.

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Ben Finney