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Subject: 
Re: A Change
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.curators
Date: 
Thu, 8 May 2003 21:47:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Frank Filz writes:
> Orion Pobursky wrote:
> Of course there are some nice advantages of the web interface (at least
> over the NNTP clients I have used):
> 
> - can easily bookmark posts
> - the little dots tree (so long as the number of posts fit) that follows
> the tree no matter what groups it wanders into (which can also be a
> negative thing)
> - quickly scan a bunch of posts
> - as mentioned before, members need not authenticate posts


I also like the fact that the parent group lists all the messages to it's
child groups.  My newsgroup program doesn't do that.

-Orion



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  Re: A Change
 
(...) Other shortcomings of the web interface: - doesn't keep track of read/unread posts very well - doesn't allow marking a post as unread (I do this all the time when I want to return later to the post to respond) - doesn't support built in spell (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.curators)

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