On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:11:35 +0000
Maurice Batey <maur...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
Hello Maurice,
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:16:18 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > nntp itself is slowly fading into history
> I wish I understood why!
Because, for the most part, people think the WWW *is* the internet.
Anything that can't be accessed via a browser is "Here be dragons"
territory; Possibly dangerous, and probably frequented by
ne’er-do-wells.
> What is there out there that is more convenient than following
> newsgroups?
Email. Possibly.
> Although I do follow the occasional user or interest Forum, it is
> nowhere near as convenient as following newsgroups via e.g. Pan.
Indeed. With email and usenet, I fire up a program, hit the "receive"
button and I'm away. I cannot fathom why people wish to move from web
site to website, logging in to forums, trawling through poorly threaded,
errr, threads, looking for stuff.
> (After trying Pan2, I'm still using Pan1!)
As am I.
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/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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