On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:13:31PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Jules Bean wrote: >> I find it incredibly surprising whenever I discover than an otherwise >> sophisticated community has adopted a bulletin board rather than email ;) > > Erm... why? > >> Conversely, a bulletin board cannot be read offline, traps users into a >> single UI (in every case I've used, slow, ugly, and lacking in >> functionality) over which they have no control. > > Oh... I suppose. > > Still, a newsreader doesn't appear to have those limitations.
I'd like to add that I simply don't have a powerful enough computer to run the bloatware browsers that most web-apps seem to require. So if you move to a pure web forum system, you lose me as well as Aaron. >> Modern email programs have sophisticated sorting, filtering, scoring, >> processes and they allow me to read messages while offline, search them >> locally, etc etc. They have customisable key bindings, they allow me to >> read all of my mailing lists in one place, they are scriptable, may >> support plugins... all of this under full user control. > > I'd just prefer not to have to wait through 100 emails a day to find the > few that interest me. With a newsreader, I can simply mark "ignore" on the > threads that don't interest me, and I'm done. Why don't you just subscribe to one of the NNTP groups that is 2-way gatewayed with haskell-cafe? I can't imagine it being that hard, and it would fix all of your problems. Stefan
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