Re: [NTLK] On the subject of OT solutions

From: Will Hartung (willh_at_msoft.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 13:44:19 EDT


From: "Bradford Schmidt" <brad_at_bradfordschmidt.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:02 AM

> I love newsgroups - but the only point about a web board is that since
they
> are threaded, you wouldn't need to look at any ot threads in which you did
> not want to participate.

Well, technically, we DO have a web interface. One can always read using the
archives.

Which, of course, highlights my personal issue with weboards. They all
behave differently, and whatever their behaviour is, it's pretty much cast
in stone, and not changeable by the reader/user.

There are many different programs that change the face of a newsgroup to
however the user wishes.

Finally, a newsgroup can be more "net efficient" than a web board, in terms
of bandwidth and resources.

The biggest complaint for the mailing list is mostly that the threading
information that is automatically generated by a newreader isn't created, so
threads are "best guesses" by the mail reader versus something endemic to
the actual messages.

Plus my mail reader doesn't have an EASY way to kill off threads.

IMHO, YMMV, "No more whining".

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh_at_msoft.com)

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