[pmmail-list] Forums back up

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Personally I couldn't agree more.  I have to point 
out, however -- unhappily -- that NNTP support 
from ISPs may no longer be an automatic thing.  My 
DSL provider, AT&T, doesn't provide news  -- this 
despite the fact that AT&T's dialup news service 
was first-rate.  (The DSL saleswoman had claimed 
they did when I signed up, but apparently they 
were mistaken -- I screamed and hollered, but all 
it got me was a credit, and an indication that 
they were hoping to implement it this summer, and 
since in most other regards the service is ok, I 
stayed.)

When Deja was around, it was something of a 
substitute, but -- no more, & I'm still going 
through withdrawal.  

Anyway to respond to an earlier post: if you have 
no choice, there's only one way to navigate 
through a web-based board, and that's with two 
browser windows -- index in one, from which you 
drag and drop post headers to the other...

-Ray Tennenbaum
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:50:51 -0400 (CDT)
> From: "John Thompson" <john.thompson@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] Forums back up
> 
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:12:55 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> >I hate web boards, as I usually must wait for a page to refresh in my
> >browser everytime I switch between the message list and the contents of
> >a message. Broadband makes it slightly less painful, but it's still
> >tedious compared to just switching panes in a newsreader. I suppose a
> >better-designed web board could alleviate that, but I have yet to see
> >one that's satisfactorily responsive.
> 
> I agree.  What was wrong with nntp that everybody decided to go to this
> web-based discussion group nonsense instead?  I suspect it's a matter of
> fashion: if it's not web-based it must not be good or some similarly
> faulty reasoning.  I have nothing against the WWW, but it's not God's own
> answer to every question possible.  For text-based discussion you still
> can't beat nntp.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)
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