Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup

[BCS]

Reply to Robert,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Bruce,
>> 
>>> David Wilson Wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In any case I'm happy as long as whatever you choose doesn't
>>>> involve a web interface. Mail/news only please. :D
>>>> 
>>> Sorry what's wrong with the web interface? It may not be perfect but
>>> it is very convenient (posting from it now).
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Bruce.
>>> 
>> 1) your post (and most post from the web interface) break threading
>> 2) with the NG you aren't forced to use that interface (with forums
>> you
>> are)
>> I don't so much care if there is a web interface, I just don't want
>> to use it.
>> 
> 1. that's a bug in the web interface of this ng (meaning
> news.digitalmars.com) *only* (there may be other, but they aren't
> related to this ng).

granted

> 2. No always true, mostly true, but not always true. And forums
> generally have a great web interfaces and email notifications.
> You seam to think all web interfaces are horrible, have you ever used
> a forum that used phpBB?

I don't pay much attention to the name of the software but I /think/ I have.

However, there are a few things inherently to web interface that I find annoying.

1) If I'm' not on line, I can't even look at anything.
2) they are a web page. anything I want to do requires that the server do 
it and pass back the results. this includes resorting the posts by date/name/whatever.
3) they don't give me everything they have (and if they did it would take 
to long). If I want older posts I click for the next page. With an NG reader, 
I scroll down.

I don't think any of these can be solved without putting software on my machine 
and once you do that, what does a forum have over an NG?

> They have great interface and they have a
> consistency between them that make it even better.

I don't care about the interface much at all. Give me; an automatic visual 
cue when a post arrives, a sortable list of posts (with sort by thread/date/poster), 
a text editor as good as notepad and spell check. That's and a decent setup 
dialog and I'm happy with the UI.