Re: [OT] For your amusement

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On 7 April 2015 at 20:50, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Forums don't work after a remarkably short time unless there is a strong
> moderator presence and participation. For over a decade I moderated one of
> the most active Amiga developer related forums on any online service. I have
> grown to prefer mailing lists. They don't search any worse than forums,
> arguably better. And mailing lists tend to feature fewer discussion chains
> that directly contradict each other's advice absent strong participation by
> well clued moderators. I also have found that mailing lists are handier for
> "browsing" or scanning. Look over all the message subject lines, at least.
> You find things worth opening that way, things you'd never find on forums or
> would tend to ignore because they take too long to load pages and generally
> do not allow proper comment chains. For people who want to maintain
> themselves up to date with the community thoughts the process of reading
> messages sucks dead ponies through garden hoses.

Basically it's unfortunate that usenet is effectively dead.

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