Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> [2019-06-05 11:59:15 +0200]: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:46:02PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > > Sorry, no inclination to follow a forum. Wish we'd go back to > > > exclusively email. > > > I personally don't disagree -- but you know what the old maxim says: "Give > > the people what they want". It seems the y00fh of today prefer forums. > > God knows why, but they do. > > Think that an usenet (nntp) newsgroup would give both the benefits of e-mail > and forums (in terms of asynchronous access, and of each user choosing the > interface one prefers ... which could mimic e-mail in full). >
+1 for plain old nntp, with a digest option added too, as Lucio suggested. Gratuitous rambling: One source of resistance to email-based groups among today's y00fh may be lack of experience with (and the slow disappearance of) the convention of composing decently formatted emails in a text editor. (Which in turn imposes the terribly inconvenient requirements of, y'know, manually inserting line breaks, indenting and outdenting properly to maintain context, and other nasty stuff). Curious if anyone agrees or has similar musings.
