Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup

[Chris Miller]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:24:44 -0500, Jason House  
<jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> Isn't that weird!  Maybe it's a generation gap thing.  Having been on
>> phpBB-style web forums since I started programming, I've always felt far
>> more comfortable on them than on mailing lists or newsgroups.  There's
>> something far more impersonal and hostile-feeling about the latter that  
>> I
>> just can't get over.  The archiving aspect of newsgroups is also fairly
>> minor to me; most, if not all, web forums have much better searches than
>> most newsreaders provide, and most also have plaintext or minimal-HTML
>> archiving functionality built in.
>
> Don't make me feel old ;)
>
> I like how newsgroups readers give me a choice of interface.  Forums seem
> like ad-hoc creations that only give the options the creator decided on.
> I've never seen a way to monitor multiple forums (on different sites) in  
> a
> unified way.  Recent forum irks would include a lack of any notification
> when someon responds to a topic I created in a tango forum.
>
> Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will respond with all the ways to  
> remove my
> issues :)
>

I made a RSS feed to notify me of dsource activity:  
http://www.dprogramming.com/dnews/dsource/
It's not that great but it works for me.