Re: Newsgroup vs web forum

On 1 Dec 2007 Timo Pietilä wrote:

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It is too bad that forums have such a bad interface compared to decent
newsreaders. Maybe I could get used to forum if it would be black text
in white background, fixed width font, thread always visible and some
method of knowing what I have read and what not (without cookies, thank
you).

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Web forums don't work offline.

Usenet was *designed* for batch uploading/downloading of messages
covering multiple interest groups followed by offline reading/replies;
I currently follow thirty-six different newsgroups. There's no way I'm
going to visit 36 different websites every time I'm online, let alone
hang around reading long threads and composing answers 'live', with
connection charges ticking away in the corner of my eye like a running
taxi meter...

<shrug> This year, I'm seeing predictions of the demise of Usenet all
over the place (not least in news.groups); if it does go, I shall
probably just give up on the Internet altogether, just as I'm seriously
considering giving up on television if the government pushes its scheme
to switch off transmissions in favour of compressed digital airwaves.
There's a stage at which the quality of the content just doesn't justify
straining to meet the receding goalposts, and the worthwhile proportion
of both media has been in gradual but steady decline.

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