In article <87r5kj8zmk....@benfinney.id.au>, 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: > > [...]
You skipped over the crowning glories of Usenet: * Threaded messaging (more robust than mailing lists, generally speaking, because the behavior of the References: header is better defined, and References: includes more than just the immediate parent) * Marking articles as read does *not* delete them; they are still available for walking through the threading, but by default you never see them again NOTHING else has these, thirty years later. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
