[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

[David Scheidt]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Sure.  They want a droll-proof interface.  (With the added benefit to
the forum operator of being able to sell their eyeballs to
advertisers.)  There's a substantial number of people who don't care
to use web fora.

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David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com