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[BJ Swope]

So says Chris from his webmail account...

On 8/25/05, Chris Head <chris2k01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> usenet at isbd.co.uk wrote:
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> > ... 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.
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> 
> Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost anything). Why, oh WHY,
> would we subject ourselves to Web-based message boards and Webmail
> services? When using a proper e-mail client, your bandwidth usage
> consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail service, your
> bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, PLUS the entire
> user interface. Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML
> renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-code user interface with only
> the e-mail message itself passed through the renderer. I mean, the way
> Webmail works, you're at the message list and click on a message to
> view. This causes a whole new page, user-interface and all, to be
> loaded. In comparison, that's like shutting down and re-opening your
> e-mail program for every single message you want to view!
> 
> Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing hypertext
> pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every application
> imaginable?
> 
> ...
> 
> </rant>
> 
> Chris
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