In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > the argument that usenet should never change seems a little > >> > heavy-handed and anachronistic. > >> > >> No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. > >> Those alternatives *do* support HTML formatting (often the subset > >> mentioned > > > > ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I > > assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and > > are much, much slower. > > Yup, Slow because of all the HTML and avatars. And you suggest to introduce > such a thing to Usenet? > No, quite the opposite, I like Usenet News as it is.
> And which useful tools do you require? > A choice of news readers to suit different people with different interfaces, filtering, kill files, etc. etc. A forum provides a single, usually rather limited, interface for the user with no way for the user to change it radically. -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
