On 9/9/06, Gerry Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Markus, Hi,
> It's not dying, and it's not spam. These are misconceptions of people > don't use newsgroups. Young people who are interested in low level > open-source programming certainly do use newsgroups. Sure, but PHP forums are taking more and more people away from USENET. As for me, I don't think I'll be able to use web based forums instead of NNTP any time soon. Newsgroups are so convenient. > The "web" does not have the advanced information. The web only has the Agreed. > Check out the standards based C++ groups, then check out the PERL groups > and their associated CPAN libraries, check out Apache, check out Linux, > they are all better than what you can get on the web. People who update > websites are just too slow, NNTP is fast. NNTP is the future. I agree. The problem is that many other people must agree as well. Maybe the day gmane will be spread across USENET (we'll have to wait for the final version of Reticule), more people will think like us. Really, I think http://www.gmane.org is wonderful. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
