Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup
Jason House
jason.james.house at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 19:24:44 PST 2007
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 :)
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