Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On 6 Feb 2005, at 19:32, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I still don't get why are Web forums so dreaded, but that's just
me... I haven't seen a *single* reason why not to make it so...
Unless, of course you still want to recieve 500+ e-mail messages if
you are away of your computer for a day or two and could not cancel
mail delivery temporarily (if you don't get the digest, of course).
To each their own, I just don't get why people don't like the web
forums idea... Maybe a private NTTP server would be more suitable for
this, where Red Hat could even set the caducity of messages. You
still need a helper application to read the messages like Evolution,
Thunderbird or whatever, and still avoid having *your* inbox flooded.
The main problem I see with a web interface is that's usually
difficult to find things as search capabilities are limited by the
remote engine and/or remote storage policy. By using NNTP I can stay
informed of new messages, I can use a nive GUI application of my
choice (like Thunderbird) and *I* decide the storage policy: if I want
to keep every message for several years, I can.
NNTP is much more flexible for me.
And, it /can/ have a web interface, for those who like web fora.
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