On 08/02/2015 06:31 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 03/08/15 00:01, Markus Malkusch wrote:
>> Anyways, OP was complaining about missing interfaces and features, which is
>> simply not true. You can communicate through Email, NNTP and if one wants a
>> webinterface so hardly just wrap one around NNTP. How can it be more
>> accessible by reducing it to some webinterface only?
No one said that it would be a web interface only (though that is most
common). An email system could be supported.
I hate sounding like a hipster youngin', but there's a reason why web
interfaces have been replacing a lot of things over the years, though.
It seems like pretty much everything computerized can access a web
interface these days.
> Some of the web based forums have attempted to integrate email with the
> on-line interface. Yahoo groups is an utter pain but I don't have to use
> any of the web based interface, I just use emails and in the morning
> there will be a number sitting in inbox so I don't have to scan around a
> dozen sites to see what is happening.
That does seem like a reasonable advantage to supporting email.
> The ones that do send email
> notifications make a half hearted attempt, but one has to go on line to
> see the content o post replies. What *IS* needed is a nice cross format
> system of working, but that only requires adding a preferred web
> interface to the existing email service? Perhaps then people who seem to
> prefer top posting will use the web interface and those of us who prefer
> a private local archive will then simply get the new text ... as an email.
That sounds like a conflict of interest, but that's just me.
> There are already web based interfaces but not providing what some
> people seem to want. What is stopping the development of one of those
> interfaces into an addition to the existing email channels? No need to
> MOVE anything!
>
What is stopping development? NNTP is an ancient protocol. Nobody wants
to bother writing *new* software for it.
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> On 03/08/15 00:01, Markus Malkusch wrote:
>> Anyways, OP was complaining about missing interfaces and features, which is
>> simply not true. You can communicate through Email, NNTP and if one wants a
>> webinterface so hardly just wrap one around NNTP. How can it be more
>> accessible by reducing it to some webinterface only?
No one said that it would be a web interface only (though that is most
common). An email system could be supported.
I hate sounding like a hipster youngin', but there's a reason why web
interfaces have been replacing a lot of things over the years, though.
It seems like pretty much everything computerized can access a web
interface these days.
> Some of the web based forums have attempted to integrate email with the
> on-line interface. Yahoo groups is an utter pain but I don't have to use
> any of the web based interface, I just use emails and in the morning
> there will be a number sitting in inbox so I don't have to scan around a
> dozen sites to see what is happening.
That does seem like a reasonable advantage to supporting email.
> The ones that do send email
> notifications make a half hearted attempt, but one has to go on line to
> see the content o post replies. What *IS* needed is a nice cross format
> system of working, but that only requires adding a preferred web
> interface to the existing email service? Perhaps then people who seem to
> prefer top posting will use the web interface and those of us who prefer
> a private local archive will then simply get the new text ... as an email.
That sounds like a conflict of interest, but that's just me.
> There are already web based interfaces but not providing what some
> people seem to want. What is stopping the development of one of those
> interfaces into an addition to the existing email channels? No need to
> MOVE anything!
>
What is stopping development? NNTP is an ancient protocol. Nobody wants
to bother writing *new* software for it.
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Stephen Coakley
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