[OT] Re: Why isn't Rev more popular? [Mailing List]

[Rodney Somerstein]

Bob Hutchison wrote:

>The only better solution to this is NNTP. Unfortunately, USENET is 
>pretty much dead because of spam and finding a good news reader 
>these days is hard (actually, some ISPs are no longer supporting 
>NNTP). BTW, if you are on windows, check out Agent 
><http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php> if you want to see what I 
>think is a fabulous mail/news reader (they combine the two)... I 
>wish this was available on the Mac.
>
>The problem with web based forums is a) their functionality sucks 
>(yes, this is my opinion, and that's the point); and, b) you have to 
>go to them. Going to something is fundamentally the wrong way about. 
>This is why email, news (despite the spam), and weblogs are either 
>so entrenched or such active areas of development.

I agree with you, Bob. I REALLY wish that this list was available as 
a Usenet group. As a matter of fact, it would probably be pretty easy 
to have this list mirrored to gmane which hosts many other such 
programming mailing lists. Then people who prefer could use a good 
NNTP reader (I use Thoth on the Mac most of the time for this) and 
those who don't want the change could just keep using email. That 
would be the best of both worlds for everyone.

-Rodney
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