-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I > assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and > are much, much slower. [snip]
Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost anything). Why, oh WHY, would we subject ourselves to Web-based message boards and Webmail services? When using a proper e-mail client, your bandwidth usage consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail service, your bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, PLUS the entire user interface. Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-code user interface with only the e-mail message itself passed through the renderer. I mean, the way Webmail works, you're at the message list and click on a message to view. This causes a whole new page, user-interface and all, to be loaded. In comparison, that's like shutting down and re-opening your e-mail program for every single message you want to view! Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing hypertext pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every application imaginable? ... </rant> Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDDoRR6ZGQ8LKA8nwRAvinAKCVi3Sfztpm3ILUk7TnunPJxBEVzwCguvAu ME8mWt2eVNpPUckJ3NT39KY= =TdTk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
