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.
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.
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