Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 17:16:41 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 20:02:52, Pete Galati wrote: >On May 20, 2000 at 18:46:31, Vincent Vega wrote: > >>The best solution would be if such features were user-dependent, so that each >>user would be able to choose for himself how the messages are displayed. This >>is already done on many web boards. > >Do you know of any examples that we could look at without becoming a member of >that group? http://www.slashdot.org, see nested and threaded choices. > >> >>Another solution that I've seen work well is switching back to a Usenet server. >>That way everybody can choose the news reader he/she likes best and since the >>news readers are much more advanced than even the best web forums, everyone >>should be happy. This solution would require much more work though and there >>would be no chess diagrams so I doubt it'd be practical here. > >A real big problem with that idea as I see it is that Mediaone who I use as an >isp has a pathetic Usenet service. Before messages get even one day old, >they've allready expired, and I have know posible way to look at the history of >a thread unless I go to the very slow services like remarQ or Deja to look >something up. So if CCC is on a usenet server, it'll be almost completely >useless to me. No, it wouldn't be a part of the Usenet hierarchy (sorry, I should have been clearer). We'd connect to a CCC-ran news server directly, instead of using the local server. See http://www.jordanr.dhs.org/ for an example - they used to have a web based forum and it was switched to news groups (BTW, Inno Setup is a very cool free Windows installer).
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