On 28 September 2012 11:16, Henry Vermaak <henry.verm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 September 2012 10:53, Graeme Geldenhuys <gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk> > wrote: > > Actually you are wrong. MSEide+MSEgui uses a mailing list. Some of those > > Right, he must have changed over to a mailing list some time after I > stopped using NNTP. > > Henry > _______________________________________________ > fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other > NNTP and Mailing Lists are better the Web forums for the simple reason that you can pull the whole history onto your own computer and it is there for good. Quite simply you get a whole archive of all the activity on the mailing list or newsgroup from the time you joined,and even going back further. They may not convenient, but "professional discipline" requires it. Try that with a web forum when it closes. People have been seduced by the ease of browsers, gmail, hotmail etc, but these days, you can probably get a good smartphone, or raspberry pi on which you can install a client that you can carry everywhere with you, or dedicate to the task in some shelf of your home. What mailing lists lack are web clients that will handle markdown a la Github or Stackoverlow -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
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