> Of course it's just my imho, but wouldn't it better to switch to > modern technologies like message boards/forums? Nailing list... > forgive me, but it's an ancient ages stuff. Main inconvenience is a > huge quotations in each mail, and the further in discussion, the > larger they grow, sometimes including 3 or 4 mails! So the digest > becomes terrifying, and hard to read new info.
Only for lazy people that attach the entire previous message including all the unsubscribe information. For people using proper threaded mail clients, no quoting atall should be necessary. But most forums I see also include massive quoting, and show entire threads on a single page, so you have to scroll past all the messages you've seen before to see is anyone has added a comment. So you waste hours and hours looking for new messages, unlike a decent email client that allows each new email message to be seen by a simple CR key. Ditto a decent NNTP reader. So I rarely read any web forums. But I agree people should have a choice and how to post and read messages. I'm currently trying to set-up forums on my new hosted Windows 2008 Server, without spending to much (more) money. Ideally I wanted something that would allow both web and NNTP access, similarly to the Codegear forums, but I've been unable to find anything at a reasonable price, such software seems aimed at large corporations with unlimited budgets. The best I've found so far is http://www.yetanotherforum.net/ which is a .net application with source code. It has unfinished NNTP capability, which seemed simply to echo new articles to an NNTP server. If anyone has found better forum/mail/NNTP software for Windows, I'd be happy to host it. Angus -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
