• Nice to see

    From DMcCunney@21:1/5 to CRNG on Wed Apr 19 20:33:45 2017
    On 7/8/2015 6:19 AM, CRNG wrote:

    I still can't figure out why anyone would prefer a proprietary labor intensive forum over a news group. I just don't see the advantage.

    For vendors, better control. Newsgroups propagate through a distributed
    star hierarchy, and there's no way to control precisely what gets
    posted. (It's why many former newsgroups are unreadable spam traps.) I
    don't really blame vendors for moving away from newsgroups.

    For users, simplicity. All you need for web based forums is a browser.
    You don't need to install, configure, and maintain an NNTP client, of
    find a feed for newsgroups you want.
    ______
    Dennis

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  • From Klaus Meinhard@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 21 08:34:02 2017
    Hallo DMcCunney,

    good answer, though 20 months late :-)

    On 7/8/2015 6:19 AM, CRNG wrote:

    I still can't figure out why anyone would prefer a proprietary labor
    intensive forum over a news group. I just don't see the advantage.

    For vendors, better control. Newsgroups propagate through a distributed
    star hierarchy, and there's no way to control precisely what gets
    posted. (It's why many former newsgroups are unreadable spam traps.) I don't really blame vendors for moving away from newsgroups.

    For users, simplicity. All you need for web based forums is a browser.
    You don't need to install, configure, and maintain an NNTP client, of
    find a feed for newsgroups you want.
    ______
    Dennis


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