theo v werkhoven renwferrets4mexs4allnl mon 18 feb 2008 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 6 require constant obnoxious usage mouse back forth several painly slow pages read write set topic read delete even possible course try follow busy list like forum youll want kill one evening 7 discussion left unreplied short time immediatly pushed way several pages weekend previous discussion disappeared 8 way use score kill files get rid fred millers etc 9 theyre single source failure unlike news even mail servers run single machines beyond certain amount simultaneously logged users become dead slow unmanagable theo theo v werkhoven registered linux user 99872 httpcounterliorg icbm 52 13 26n 4 29 47e icq 277217131 suse 103 jabber qeihsijabberxs4allnl kernel 2622 see headers pgpgpg info claimer email receive become property disclaimers apply thu 07 aug 2008 020313 0100 opensuse true news group