On 06/07/10 10:45, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:17:39 +1000 > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> So you say. For the interface to be “better” it needs to keep the good >> features of the existing interface. I include among the good features of >> Usenet: > > That's a great list of features. But they all apply to mailing lists as > well.
I think Ben Finney was making comparison between Usenet/Mailing-List vs Forum. The argument basically sums up to Distributed vs. Centralized. >> Where is the “much better interface” that improves on all of that? > > I have always been a big fan of Usenet. I was using it back when you > could subscribe and almost read every group. For a while I was > a hub and downloaded the entire distribution to my little home > computer. Binaries, what the heck is that? But I just gave it up a long > time ago. Mailing lists just made so much more sense to me. I now run > a number of mailing lists. I can't even run a news server on my own > little ISP any more and have to contract out. My only problem with mailing list is that for large lists, it can easily overflows my inbox. Having a separate interface (e.g. NNTP) is quite useful. For large list, I wouldn't be able to read all the posts anyway, so from time-to-time I'd "Mark Everything as Read", you cannot reliably do that in your Inbox even with filtering and all that stuffs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list