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Subject: Re: Useability of CCC (suggested opinion pole)

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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