Randall R Schulz wrote:
Yes. And your problem with that is what? Do you have a specific objection, or are you going to continue to feign incredulity?
Here's my list of objections from an article I wrote in Jan2006:
Web forums: I also absolutely loathe web-forums. Talk about enhancing to the point of failure. Or re-inventing the wheel. What was ever wrong with newsgroups and mailing-lists? The 5 top reasons why I hate web-forums:
1. They are essentially an inferior and utterly superfluous re-invention of existing internet communication means - newsgroups aka usenet. They may be inferior in some cases, but they are webbased so they need no separate software. I can read forums at school, in a internet cafe when on holiday, no problem.This is not the case with usenet. 2. They're web-based - the interface changes just about every time you change forum. Add to that the entirely superfluous graphics and icons and what have you, and they become slow and unwieldy. The layout is a result of the admin's choices, true. But if the choices are good the result will be good. There are even phpbb's who let the user pick the css (drop down menu) and (if the css is build to
3. Following multiple separate forums can't be done on one screen.
On Feb 18, 2008 7:41 PM, Per Jessen
4. There is no proper threading in forums and selective quoting is at best cumbersome. No proper threading? What kind of forum are you thinking? I do not know any forums which don't. A message is posted in a reply to a message so it's displayed directly beneath it. 5. They usually require that you login. Downright silly. Don't you log in to check your mail? Most forums are readable without logging in, just sending to it is not allowed.
Do you have more reasons? As always: I can still be convinced if you'd like. One reason for forum instead of usenet: Linux must try to access the main public. The main public does know how to work forums, the do not know how to work usenet. The usenet history would have to be stored and made available by Google search. Neil -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org