Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the information side (in contrast to the discussion side) RSS is > replacing Usenet,
LOL, how? I can't post to RSS feeds. Or do you mean for lurkers? > There is no real reason why NNTP couldn't be used like RSS (i.e. > contain a small description and a web link as message text), It has been used like that for ages (or as long as I can remember). > or why a > newsgroup shouldn't we written in HTML and contain a (default, or > user-provided) CSS sheet. It's called www. It's already here (or there) > If things were that way, suddenly people > *would* use Outlook and Thunderbird for news-reading, But why do you want that? (Oh, and you can't read news with Outlook). Why do you want more people on Usenet? > while today > everything is just Browser+HTTP. And what's wrong with that? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
