At Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:58:10 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Though I'm not conviced at all ;) Editing textarea-fields simply > sucks. And I'm also saying this as a web developer. Generally > useability of web forums is really bad, that's my main gripe against > them. Also I like having the mailing list archives (and my own sent > mail) on my own hard disk instead of someone else's. grepmail is a > cool tool and much quicker than most web searches. Also searching > stuff and participating on lists won't be slowed down when I > bitttorrent the newest Dynebolic or do similar things. I think we have a case here where two valid, but different, definitions of user-friendly are at odds. All of the benefits you list are things I never have and never will take advantage of. However, I represent a screaming minority (possibly of one) within the *nix world, so I just bend over and take it. -Pete
