Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:56 -0600, Eric Vought, Technical Director
wrote:
> I spend a lot of time monitoring mailing lists of various kinds. Usenet
> does not do everything right. In particular, Usenet feeds generate a
> *lot* of traffic. [...]
> 
> The wonderful thing about *good* web fora is that they provide a good
> means for selecting what you want to read off line, such as email
> subscription to subtopics/threads, getting just replies to your posts,
> seeing just posts from a particular user, RSS support, etc. [...]
> 
> Bad web fora on the other hand means clicking on 35 links to see the 1
> message you want to read. On a slow connection, it can take all day just
> see if anyone has replied.
> 

And the Really Great Thing [tm] about using the NNTP protocol as a base
is that there *are* good news-to-mail and news-to-web gateway software
packages! So if the base is NNTP, you can use a newsreader, mail client,
or browser (whichever you prefer) to get the messages any way you like.

What's not to like?

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>