On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:56 -0600, Eric Vought, Technical Director wrote: > I spend a lot of time monitoring mailing lists of various kinds. Usenet > does not do everything right. In particular, Usenet feeds generate a > *lot* of traffic. [...] > > The wonderful thing about *good* web fora is that they provide a good > means for selecting what you want to read off line, such as email > subscription to subtopics/threads, getting just replies to your posts, > seeing just posts from a particular user, RSS support, etc. [...] > > Bad web fora on the other hand means clicking on 35 links to see the 1 > message you want to read. On a slow connection, it can take all day just > see if anyone has replied. > And the Really Great Thing [tm] about using the NNTP protocol as a base is that there *are* good news-to-mail and news-to-web gateway software packages! So if the base is NNTP, you can use a newsreader, mail client, or browser (whichever you prefer) to get the messages any way you like. What's not to like? Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
