[Coco] OS-9 Book

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010, Lothan wrote:
>From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
>
>> There are more reasons that the world is going to web based forums, but
>> then
>> those who also use them know why already.
>
>There are also good reasons I dislike using web-based forums. Web forums
>can't track what I have read vs. what I have not read; at best, they
> record the last message I read or the last message that existed at the
> time I last logged on. Many web forums don't even track what I've read so
> it can be difficult keeping up with conversations in multiple threads.
>
>Most web forums present flat threads so it can be difficult to track
>individual threads of thought and long threads can be scattered across 10
> or more web pages, thereby making it even more difficult to keep up with
> the last posts in each thread.
>
>There's also the issue of advertisements and ad tracking in web forums
> that you typically don't get in a mailing list or newsgroup. The one you
> mentioned for example is tracked by Google AdSense, Chikita, and
> Quantcast.
>
And you forgot to mention the PITA that logging in before one can post, not 
to mention the majority of it is html, exposing you to the security breaches 
inherent to that format.

Here, I have a script that sucks from all 3 servers I have access to every 3 
minutes, works totally in the background.  Kmail then scans the mailfile 
that script dumps into and sorts it to the mailing list folders.  That 
script also commands spamassassin, so 95% of the spam goes to /dev/null and 
I never see it.

Literally, all I have to do to read my mail is switch kde to the window that 
kmail is running in, and tap the plus key to read the next email.  Its a 1 
botton click to bring up the editor in a few milliseconds (with the curser 
positioned at the bottom of the message) so I can reply to this mail, and 
when I am done typing, and don't see too many miss-spellings, it is one more 
click to send it.

NO web forum can come within 5 clicks/message of being that simple.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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