Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 6 Feb 2005, at 19:32, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> I still don't get why are Web forums so dreaded, but that's just me... 
> I haven't seen a *single* reason why not to make it so... Unless, of 
> course you still want to recieve 500+ e-mail messages if you are away 
> of your computer for a day or two and could not cancel mail delivery 
> temporarily (if you don't get the digest, of course). To each their 
> own, I just don't get why people don't like the web forums idea... 
> Maybe a private NTTP server would be more suitable for this, where Red 
> Hat could even set the caducity of messages. You still need a helper 
> application to read the messages like Evolution, Thunderbird or 
> whatever, and still avoid having *your* inbox flooded.

The main problem I see with a web interface is that's usually difficult 
to find things as search capabilities are limited by the remote engine 
and/or remote storage policy. By using NNTP I can stay informed of new 
messages, I can use a nive GUI application of my choice (like 
Thunderbird) and *I* decide the storage policy: if I want to keep every 
message for several years, I can.

NNTP is much more flexible for me.