15 Jan
2003
15 Jan
'03
1:19 p.m.
What is your opinion? Let's answer this one
in-list, please.
H*** NO!!!!
Simple filtering of email messages takes care of 'inbox clutter', etc.
Email is a fast, sleek and lowbandwidth medium. Web-boards, on the
otherhand are cumbersome and time consuming. With email I can read
CLASSICCMP on anything, with a Web-board, I'd be limited to a modern
computer. If this were to happen, I can guarentee a lot of people would
leave.
Zane
15 Jan
15 Jan
2:05 p.m.
The blog format seems more suited to individual monologues with replies
rather than real discussion. Perhaps you are thinking something more like
the yahoo-style message list which essentially threads an email discussion
on a web front end.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Email is a fast, sleek and lowbandwidth medium.
Web-boards, on the
otherhand are cumbersome and time consuming. With email I can read
CLASSICCMP on anything, with a Web-board, I'd be limited to a modern
computer. If this were to happen, I can guarentee a lot of people would
leave.
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2:41 p.m.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, Paul Thompson wrote:
The blog format seems more suited to individual
monologues with replies
rather than real discussion. Perhaps you are thinking something more like
the yahoo-style message list which essentially threads an email discussion
on a web front end.
Yes, the Yahoo groups style is a better model of what I was thinking.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
2:48 p.m.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
With email I can read CLASSICCMP on anything, with a
Web-board, I'd be
limited to a modern computer.
Surely anything that can run a mail client can run lynx...
You could always telnet to port 80 if you were in a pinch! <-- kidding
If this were to happen, I can guarentee a lot of
people would leave.
That's what I figured. :-\
--
Jeffrey Sharp
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