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Hendo (John P. Henderson) wrote:
> Time for me to play devil's advocate...
> If the verification problem is something that even members get when not
> using the interface that I do, then I argue that maybe the web interface
> is your solution if you really don't like the system, and who among us
> doesn't have a web browser available half the time anyway?
Even members get the verification when using a newsreader
The web interface has several drawbacks :
- It's harder to search for things compared to a regular news reader (I
store all messages I retrieve local for reference)
- I need to be online to draft/make a post, while with a newsreader I can
compose it and post later (storing temp posts with notepad isn't
convenient)
- Web browsers are NOT easy to browse through posts, because they don't
display message trees like a good newsreader, and it's harder to keep track
of posts you read and posts you didn't read.
- Web browsers generate more traffic. For some perhaps moot, but as I'm
always way over my ISP's limit already I try to watch out for waisted
bandwidth.
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Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/
LEGO Santa Fe B-unit | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/lego/f7b.html
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