In a message dated: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:49:29 -0000
"Rich C" said:
>The advantage of message boards over mailing lists is that YOU go to
>THEM, they do not come to you.
Same goes for a news server.
>I also considered dropping THIS list once for that very same reason.) :o)
Yeah, me too. Oh wait, I *did* once :)
>There is nothing inherently wrong with message boards. Their only
>downfall is who runs them. You can have some neat features, like todays
>active topics, threads sorted in order of most recent post, private
>messaging, and the ability to see who's on line, and you can prevent
>users from using html tags or "ubb script" to link to stupid sig images
>if you want.
My view of message boards is that they're a "poor man's" news server
with a slightly prettier interface. (the man is poor in 'root'
ownership as you pointed out :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
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