Web fora are not an equivalent, or a replacement.
A lot of people seem to consider them a functional equivalent,
replacement, whatever, for many purposes.
Probably because they've never
noticed how friggin' annoying they
are. ;)
I feel moderately sure you don't actually mean this to be taken
seriously, but there is a real point lurking here which I think it good
to address.
As hard as it may be for you or me to understand, they _aren't_
annoying to a lot of people these days. While it doesn't happen much
(like you, I tend to hang out with crowds that share our opinion on
this point), I _have_ seen people ask things indicating that they
actually prefer a web forum to a mailing list - and no, I don't think
they're all trolls expecting to hide behind the pseudonymity granted by
having (potentially) a separate name on each forum.
I don't
like it any more than you seem to. But that's one of the
directions the computer world has gone these days - and one of the
reasons I'm getting more and more depressed about being more and
more out of step with more and more of it.
Eh, I wouldn't worry about it if I
were you. Smart people will
continue to do things in reasonable ways. The idiots can twist in
the wind. My port 25 will always answer.
Your port 25, good as it may be, does not a world make. :(
It's getting to the point where you can't even get a job, never mind a
_computer_ job, without having to use the God-damned Web! (It's not
quite there yet, but it's depressingly close - and I mean
"depressingly" literally; when events have forced these matters into my
awareness, I've been noticing symptoms typically associated with
depression showing up.)
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