text_combined: per jessen ueecomputerorg neil wrote feb 18 2008 741 pm per jessen wrote snip 1 essentially inferior utterly superfluous reinvention existing internet communication means newsgroups aka usenet may inferior cases webbased need separate software read forums school internet cafe holiday problemthis case usenet hi neil like jdd hoping avoid debate flogging dead horse list reasons iswas intended statement theyre really open debate nevertheless webbased forums need software called webbrowser usenet accessible website provided youve got right software 2 theyre webbased interface changes every time change forum add entirely superfluous graphics icons become slow unwieldy layout result admins choices true choices good result good even phpbbs let user pick css drop menu css build full posibilties therefore full layout let know propose _guarantee_ interface _not_ change change forum 3 following multiple separate forums cant done one screen true matter simply open 2 browser windows place neatly next 1 screen fact even filter mails different mailing lists folder placed automatically suspect youre probably young perhaps even little inexperienced nothing wrong trackfollow maybe 40 50 mailinglists every day equally probably check maybe 2025 public lists every day need switch knode get new articles know groups updates dont one screen 25 heres screenshot knode httpjessenchfilesknodescreenshot2jpeg 49 mailing lists 4 proper threading forums selective quoting best cumbersome proper threading kind forum thinking know forums dont message posted reply message displayed directly beneath proper threading may showing inexperience little see screenshot example threading 5 usually require login downright silly dont log check mail forums readable without logging sending allowed nope login workstation rest goes readpostwhaetever reasons always still convinced youd like really like said 5 reasons article wrote two years ago havent changed one reason forum instead usenet linux must try access main public main public know work forums know work usenet usenet history would stored made available google search absolutely problem webforum _interface_ make core engine news server gated webfora mailinglists ill perfectly happy however right webfora believe alone universe behave per jessen zürich thu 07 aug 2008 014756 0100 opensuse true news group