7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
8:21 p.m.
Erik Klein wrote:
PBBBT!
I really don't think I'm a Luddite. I certainly don't fear change,
in life or in computing. I *am*, however, a lazy son-of-a-bitch, and
have broken one wrist and dislocated both thumbs and several fingers
more than once.
Read 350 posts to a mailing list, in a well-configured mail client of
your choice.
Read 350 posts to any web forum.
Go Google "therbligs".
Better yet, Google therbligs first, and consider the concept while
you try to navigate the New! Improved! Web Forum.
It's not the New! part that sucks, it's the "This Sucks" part that
sucks.
Doc
Talk about the
inevitability of using modern tools to support
our habit of old computers.
There are those that would fight the inevitable forever if able. The
Amish still use horse and buggy, don't they?
A few more Slashdottings on interesting topics and
this list
could expand.
Even without that I think the hobby is growing substantially. We don't
need some sudden influx when the steady growth may well do the same thing.
Yes, a web forum would be Different and All, but
at least it
throws away all this haggling about list traffic and MX debugging.
A little LAMP server, a little postNuke, we could be up in minutes.
"We" already are. There are several vintage computer discussion boards
out there including my own.
Yes, I know it would require a modern web browser.
Is this the
Civil War re-enactor list? Are my buttons and hardtack not
authentic enough? Why the emotional attraction to a mailing list
as opposed to the web?
The luddites are coming, the luddites are coming! :)
I've heard the same arguments from list aficionados as from newsgroup
hounds about why web forums suck. The bottom line, though, is that
"Change is BAD!" (tm)