Unlike the web, USENET articles include a subject, date, and author as part of the formalism and are intrinsically threaded.
Unlike forums, news articles have their own URL (news://...) so can be linked to.
Unlike mailing lists, newsgroup articles reside on servers so they do not encumber your mail box. You go to them, they do not come to you.
Almost all email readers come with a news reader.
Finally, although public forums are subject to spam, the spam problem will be solved eventually, it is possible to set up moderated newsgroups, and, one of the least used possibilities of the internet, private newsgroups make for an excellent means to collaborative project management.
GoogeGroups is good. Some posts here point out that the default reply operation does not include the quoted post being replied to. But the 'show options > reply' method of creating a reply *does* quote the post being replied to.
I consider the lack of that in the default reply to be design flaw but not a condemnation of either GoogleGroups or USENET.
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Re:What? (Score:3, Interesting)
IETF standards. See:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0977.txt?number=977 [ietf.org]
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0850.txt?number=850 [ietf.org]
Unlike the web, USENET articles include a
subject, date, and author as part of the
formalism and are intrinsically threaded.
Unlike forums, news articles have their own
URL (news://...) so can be linked to.
Unlike mailing lists, newsgroup articles
reside on servers so they do not encumber
your mail box. You go to them, they do not
come to you.
Almost all email readers come with a news reader.
Finally, although public forums are subject to
spam, the spam problem will be solved eventually,
it is possible to set up moderated newsgroups,
and, one of the least used possibilities of
the internet, private newsgroups make for an
excellent means to collaborative project
management.
GoogeGroups is good. Some posts here point out
that the default reply operation does not
include the quoted post being replied to. But
the 'show options > reply' method of creating
a reply *does* quote the post being replied to.
I consider the lack of that in the default
reply to be design flaw but not a condemnation
of either GoogleGroups or USENET.
Cheers,
Dennis Allard
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