Dragaera

Mailing list vs. forum (was: warning to newbies)

Tue Feb 10 16:30:19 PST 2004

Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod wrote:
>
>I personally think this would be best as a Usenet. Newsgroups are
>great and I'm sure there would be no problem with people using
>Outlook, Forte, Nutscrape or anyone else's favorite NNTP.

<delurk>

And there are many free newsreaders out there for everyone, and even
mail2news gateways for those who still want to use mailreaders.  Also,
most USENET readers other than Outlook *don't* default to top-posting,
as a general rule.  Since I know there are a lot of Mac users on this list,
I might also mention that Thoth is a very nice Mac newsreader, albeit
not a free one.

That said, USENET generally includes a lot of jerks and a much lower
signal:noise ratio, which I would think would discourage many people
>from going that route.  Perhaps a dedicated server that newsreaders
could access, but that's not always feasible.

Ah well, just a few thoughts.

</delurk>

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Nik ( Shori / Dacileva )
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