per jessen ueecomputerorg randall r schulz wrote yes problem specific objection going continue feign incredulity heres list objections article wrote jan2006 web forums also absolutely loathe webforums talk enhancing point failure reinventing wheel ever wrong newsgroups mailinglists 5 top reasons hate webforums 1 essentially inferior utterly superfluous reinvention existing internet communication means newsgroups aka usenet 2 theyre webbased interface changes every time change forum add entirely superfluous graphics icons become slow unwieldy 3 following multiple separate forums cant done one screen 4 proper threading forums selective quoting best cumbersome 5 usually require login downright silly per jessen zürich thu 07 aug 2008 010654 0100 opensuse true news group