Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:02:31 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: webinfo@att.net Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New FreeBSD forums site Message-ID: <200204050002.g3502VB30130@revolt.poohsticks.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Apr 2002 23:47:57 GMT." <20020404234839.HZIN8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>
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In message <20020404234839.HZIN8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet
.att.net>, webinfo@att.net writes:
>We have active SMP discussions under our Hardware
>forum.
Web forums are an abomination that should be stopped.
Unlike mailing lists:
- They're not easily archived by individual users to allow
searches with reasonable tools
- They require users to periodically poll for new messages. If I
have to check once a day, I might answer a post or two and
forget the rest. With mailing lists, if I'm waiting for a compile
to finish I'm likely to respond to the most recent interesting
message.
- They require users to be online to read messages (this is bad
in the backwards places that charge my the minute for
dialup internet access)
Existing implementations have additional disadvantages compared
to mailing lists, including
- Bad search facilities
- Poor support for quoting
- No support for using a reasonable text editor
- Slow performance
- Bad browser compatability (there are a couple that crash netscape)
- Showing all messages in a thread in chronological order, including
ones you've already seen
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