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In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
> usenet at isbd.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
> >> > heavy-handed and anachronistic.
> >> 
> >> No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards.
> >> Those alternatives *do* support HTML formatting (often the subset
> >> mentioned 
> > 
> > ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I
> > assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and
> > are much, much slower.
> 
> Yup, Slow because of all the HTML and avatars. And you suggest to introduce 
> such a thing to Usenet?
> 
No, quite the opposite, I like Usenet News as it is.


> And which useful tools do you require?
> 
A choice of news readers to suit different people with different
interfaces, filtering, kill files, etc. etc.  A forum provides a
single, usually rather limited, interface for the user with no way for
the user to change it radically.

-- 
Chris Green