I think you're being pretentious a little bit. A good usenet implementation is *closer* to a forum, which is what you want. But forums are a different (more dynamic) use case. With smaller entry barriers to large amounts of content.
--Sean Somebody claiming to be Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2009/10/11 Mic J <michael.cogn...@gmail.com>: > > Why is that better? > > Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated > into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy > place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because your mailbox is > where messages can be threaded properly, because there are no avatars > or forum stats or ranks or administrators or moderators to create > politics, because they're low overhead and easy accessible, because > low-traffic mailing lists still catch everyone's attention where a > low-traffic forum will eventually be ignored by the users... so on and > so forth. There's bound to be a bunch of sites or archived > rants/debates about this. > > If it helps, compare your average forum goer with your average mailing > list denizen. That alone should be enough... > > -- > Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
