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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:19:16 GMT
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It seems that I'm no only one here who doesn't like NNTP. I'll try to
explain.
NNTP is, to me, an outdated technology that should simply be allowed to die
out. It is cumbersome (especially with the extra checks that Lugnet demand
before allowing user to post) and, quite frankly, not particularly
user-friendly.
The only reason why I use NNTP (via Outlook) is that the Lugnet
web-interface is, I'm sorry to say, rather poor and confusing.
A vBulletin driven forum would, IMHO, be a much better choice.
What I do agree with, is the fact that Lugnet, and in particularly the vast
amount of knowledge it contains, must not be allowed to die.
- Allan
"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
news:42DD8666.77D97448@vfaq.com...
> I only use NNTP for Lugnet. As other hobbies I have had have moved to BBs,
> I have trailed off of them. I *highly* prefer NNTP and email to anything
> else, as I can download when I want and read offline (not that I'm ever
> really offline). I just won't use BBs unless forced to, and only then
> extremely rarely.
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> If you kill off *everything* else having to do with Lugnet, please
> continue NNTP (in cooperation with legofan.org, maybe?). It ROCKs having
> all my Lego threads pretty much located in one place (I will occasionally
> check BIMP, etc, but only when a posting here links to something that
> sounds interesting).
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> Suz wrote:
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> > For those of you using newsreaders, I have a few questions. I'm curious:
> > what other sorts of stuff do you follow via newsreader? Anything cool?
> > Are there many things you've been forced to switch to viewing other ways?
> > How do you follow rss feeds? Is there any such thing as a good
> > aggrigator? What's up with projects like nntp//rss? Like, how come it's
> > dead in the water?
> >
> > http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
> >
> > -Suz
>
> --
> Tom Stangl
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| "Allan Johansen" <f2k@chaotica.dk> wrote in message news:IJxH0E.110r@lugnet.com... (...) die (...) I disagree. I think NNTP is a underappreciated technology by most people. Reading content via a News Reader is as simple as reading e-mail. I really (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) You're forgetting some BIG advantages of NNTP... NNTP doesn't require huge bloated software (be it IE or Firefox or whatever...), since it's text-based there's little overhead (just look at all the HTML code when looking at the source of ANY (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) I disagree strongly! What protocol exists, which can replace NNTP and which has all the same benefits as NNTP. (...) NNTP is _not_ cumbersome. (but the Lugnet NNTP server is practically unusable to me) I agree that Lugnet doesn't use NNTP very (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| I only use NNTP for Lugnet. As other hobbies I have had have moved to BBs, I have trailed off of them. I *highly* prefer NNTP and email to anything else, as I can download when I want and read offline (not that I'm ever really offline). I just won't (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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