Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in every time when you want to get the news. I prefer receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically...
NNTP is more for higher traffic stuff and for situations where most users only want to read a part of the messages, plus, as Jim said, NNTP has a serious spam problem. A forum-like thing on our homepage is the FAQ: If you have a problem with DOS, report it in the FAQ, and check back from time to time to see if somebody has added a description of the solution to your FAQ entry. The best FAQ entries are linked from our Wiki, from a page there called the MetaFAQ. As we have many short mails between few people on the list recently, those people might want to mail each other directly, rather than through the list. Even better would be interactive discussion on IRC (irc.i7c.org #freedos, you can just log in without needing an account) but this only works if you have time at the same moment, which can be a problem because FreeDOS is a world-wide project :-). Eric PS: Some people on IRC simply have their PC on all the time, not very energy-saving... Pro: You can write them all the time and they will see your message when they get back. Contra: It is sometimes hard to tell whether somebody is really online ;-). On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote: >> I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a >> far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the >> advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why >> would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could >> simply view headers on a server and choose the ones of interest? > I prefer a forum software, Simple Machines work great... > The login system secure no forge identity. Easy to manage, save > bandwidth, you can even add your avatar. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
