forum SW [forum protocol]

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Ameer Armaly wrote:
> "guest" <guest at dm.com> wrote in message 
> news:eng89a$8qm$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> who likes this forum-SW ???
>> (i think it's a PITA)
>>
>> what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
>> it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot
>>
>> thx
> I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a 
> protocol for modern forums, so clients could entirely govern display 
> whichever way they wanted as opposed to using a single interface for web 
> forums.  Anyone interested in experimenting with this? 
> 
> 

I'm interested.  Was actually talking about this very thing with a friend a couple days 
back.  I'd personally like to see support for NNTP, HTTP, and even SMTP/POP (that's right) 
  all at once from one forum server, with some concept of user accounts so I can "take my 
settings with me".  Definitely opens the community doors wiiiiiiide.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls