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0 pointsgrahamjperrin2y ago0 comments

I'm a reluctant user of Discord for FreeBSD. I'm there only because it's a good community.

A good web forum is vastly superior to mailing lists.

Matrix, with suitable clients, is vastly superior to IRC.

I'm above the age of thirty-five by twenty-three years and three quarters.

I'm right on all counts ;-)

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marwis2y ago· 2 in thread

> A good web forum is vastly superior to mailing lists.

This is easily refutable - one can make a web frontend to mailing list that imitates the look of any forum. Getting forum into email client (or other frontend) not so much ;-P

And of course NNTP is superior to both.

grahamjperrinOP2y ago

I can refute the mailing list argument, but here's not the place for yet another argument about the pros and cons.

NNTP is not looking good for the Project. Please see, for example:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/192271/253798105-4...

At the time, mid-July: "twelve on-topic threads this year – overall, probably not bad enough to justify delisting."

NNTP looks far worse for other groups that are promoted.

marwis2y ago

This is more to do with how USENET is run rather than NNTP as a protocol.

Fundamentally there is very little difference between NNTP group and mailing list except the former having no spam filter and moderation.

It would be great if all mailing lists provided at least read-only access to archives via NNTP. I miss gmane as my one stop shop for all mailing lists.

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