Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Gustavo Seabra]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> 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.
>
And, it /can/ have a web interface, for those who like web fora.

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