18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
6:02 p.m.
From: Christian Corti
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:08 AM
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
>>> Perhaps. I'm not a big forum denizen
(too many disconnected places
>>> to keep up with) so I rarely see help requests posted to them.
>> This is my problem with fora in general. I
prefer E-mail, the
>> original "push medium."
> And mine. If I read every forum that applied to
soemthing I had
> interest in, then I'd have no time to do anything else (not even
> sleep).
And I prefer NNTP ("Usenet"). Still
wondering when classiccmp will be
available there... NNTP is much more suited to fora like this one than
SMTP.
Administering NNTP is slightly more complicated than administering SMTP
(speaking as one who has done both). There is the further issue of
placement of a newsgroup within a hierarchy. The probable consensus
among the Powers That Be would be that alt.folklore.computers already
exists and that therefore a new group is unnecessary (never mind that
a.f.c. has become a swamp of never-ending political and quasipolitical
arguments, often started by some clown baiting a former DEC employee who
cannot not rise to the bait).
Mailing lists are like democracy: They're the worst way to do things,
they're just better than any of the alternatives.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/