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[Lie Ryan]

On 06/07/10 10:45, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:17:39 +1000
> Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> So you say. For the interface to be “better” it needs to keep the good
>> features of the existing interface. I include among the good features of
>> Usenet:
> 
> That's a great list of features.  But they all apply to mailing lists as
> well.

I think Ben Finney was making comparison between Usenet/Mailing-List vs
Forum. The argument basically sums up to Distributed vs. Centralized.

>> Where is the “much better interface” that improves on all of that?
> 
> I have always been a big fan of Usenet.  I was using it back when you
> could subscribe and almost read every group.  For a while I was
> a hub and downloaded the entire distribution to my little home
> computer.  Binaries, what the heck is that? But I just gave it up a long
> time ago.  Mailing lists just made so much more sense to me.  I now run
> a number of mailing lists.  I can't even run a news server on my own
> little ISP any more and have to contract out.

My only problem with mailing list is that for large lists, it can easily
overflows my inbox. Having a separate interface (e.g. NNTP) is quite
useful. For large list, I wouldn't be able to read all the posts anyway,
so from time-to-time I'd "Mark Everything as Read", you cannot reliably
do that in your Inbox even with filtering and all that stuffs.